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#1

“And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.”
― William Hope Hodgson, The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works

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#2

“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― M. R. James, A Warning to the Curious

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#3

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#4

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: humor, inspiration, inspirational, life, science

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#5

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#6

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#7

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#8

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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#9

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#11

“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

tags: self-sacrifice

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#12

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

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#13

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
― Nikola Tesla

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#15

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love

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#16

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#19

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#20

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#22

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost

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#23

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

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#26

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

tags: new-england-wisdom

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#27

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
― Robert Frost

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#28

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

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#30

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
― Robert Frost

tags: food, marriage

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#31

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

tags: happiness

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#32

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion

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#35

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#36

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
― Robert Frost

tags: disorganized, style-of-living

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#37

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

tags: choice, consequence, individuality, inspirational

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#37

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

tags: home, homecoming, inspirational-quotes

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#38

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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