Oscar Wilde Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Progress Quotes

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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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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