Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton's Popular Quotes

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never…

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of th…

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton