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

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I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.

James Branch Cabell's Popular Quotes

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo…

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Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

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Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening…

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I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three …

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There is no gift more great than love.

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Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

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I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

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