Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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William Wordsworth
His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in...
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James Joyce
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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Sebastian Faulks
Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next...
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Ray Bradbury
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...
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Alain De Botton
More Quotes By JeanJacques Rousseau
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he...
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
