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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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
Pamela Nicholson
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Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.
Austin Robert Carlile
Attack Attack!
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I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative.
John Warnock
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Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.
Blaise Pascal
