Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Life Quotes, Truth Quotes

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

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All life is an experiment.

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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

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He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

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What can be explained is not poetry.

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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

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Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

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