“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 86
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”
“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”
“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”
“Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread.”
“Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are.”
“Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots.”
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
“What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.”