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

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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 to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

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

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

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

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

- 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

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

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton