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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1688)

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You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
Thomas Otway
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Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
Pierre Corneille
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Dennis Potter
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When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Pierre Corneille
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Great actions speak great minds.
John Fletcher
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'
Cyrano de Bergerac
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I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
Vittorio Alfieri
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The guilty is he who meditates a crime the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Vittorio Alfieri
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To err is human but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
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The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Vittorio Alfieri
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If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
Vittorio Alfieri
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That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri
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The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.
Vittorio Alfieri
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
Clare Boothe Luce
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
W. S. Gilbert
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