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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

- Anatole France | Books and Reading Quotes

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

- Anatole France | Books and Reading Quotes

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

- Anatole France | Chance and Fortune Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

- Anatole France | Change and Transience Quotes

And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

- Anatole France | Crime and Punishment Quotes

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

- Anatole France | Critics and Criticism Quotes

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

- Anatole France | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France | Law and Lawyers Quotes

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

- Anatole France | Thinking and Thought Quotes

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

- Anatole France | Wisdom Quotes

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

- Anatole France | Regrets Quotes

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

- Anatole France | Happiness Quotes

It is not customary to love what one has.

- Anatole France | Forgiveness Quotes

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

- Anatole France | Simplicity Quotes

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

- Anatole France | The Future Quotes

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

- Anatole France | Difficult Days Quotes

Our passions are ourselves.

- Anatole France | Enthusiasm Quotes

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

- Anatole France | Enthusiasm Quotes

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

- Anatole France | Change Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

- Anatole France | Creating Positive Change Quotes

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

- Anatole France | Decisions Quotes

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

- Anatole France | Ignorance Quotes

Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

- Anatole France | Adversity Quotes

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

- Anatole France | Inspiration Quotes