Oscar Wilde Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Balance Quotes

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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