Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Oscar Wilde
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
Lord Byron
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
William Blake
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
Petrarch
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I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
Harry Styles
One Direction
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
George Bernard Shaw
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You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.
Tertullian
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas