Quote by Norman Douglas
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. – Norman Douglas

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Reality
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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respect
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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Age
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank

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work

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

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work

The idea that to make a man work youve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. Weve done that for so long that weve forgotten theres any other way. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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work

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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work

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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow

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Change in all things is sweet. – Aristotle

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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. – Charles James Fox

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We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us. – Suze Orman

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