Short Quotes · Page 6

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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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“He that lives upon Hope will die fasting.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”

— Cicero

“Love, and do what thou wilt.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“We must love one another or die.”

— W. H. Auden

“Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”

— Edward Abbey

“The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

— Richard Bach

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“From labor there shall come forth rest.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.”

— John Milton

“I am not now that which I have been.”

— Lord Byron

“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”

— Charles Dickens

“Still ending, and beginning still.”

— William Cowper

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

— Mark Twain

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“He follows his father, but not with equal steps.”

— Virgil

“And all my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears.”

— William Shakespeare

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

— Sophocles

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