Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Long Quotes, Metaphysical Quotes

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Path Quotes

Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Long Quotes , Ancient Quotes

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Long Quotes

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Rely Upon Quotes , Long Quotes

The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Typewriters Quotes , Long Quotes

Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Long Quotes

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Long Quotes

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

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