Short Quotes · Page 18
Big wisdom in few words—the best short quotes pack a lifetime of insight into a single sentence. Perfect for captions, cards, or a moment of daily reflection.
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“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”
“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”
“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”
“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.”
“Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.”
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
“It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear.”
“No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”