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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
John Locke, English philosopher (1632–1704)
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Word is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.
Secrets of Old Philosophers
John Lydgate, English poet (1370–1451)
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The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin, English art critic (1819–1900)
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Nostromo (1904)
Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (1452–1519)
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Old Mortality (1884)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (1850–1894)
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The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Ask Mamma (1858)
RS Surtees, English editor and sporting writer (1805–1864)
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
Rudyard Kipling, English journalist and writer (1865–1936)
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The ordinary acts we practise every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Sir Thomas More, English saint and lawyer (1478–1535)
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Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
Danse Macabre (1981)
Stephen King, American writer (1947–)
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
The Munich Mannequins (1965)
Sylvia Plath, American poet and writer (1932–1963)
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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.
Agricola (c. 98)
Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (c. 56–120)
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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
A Writer’s Notebook (1946)
W Somerset Maugham, British playwright (1874–1965)
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It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
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