F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Wise Quotes, World Quotes

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

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The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

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I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

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Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

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