F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Literature Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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