Quote by Richard Cecil
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Beauty
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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Wisdom
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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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Experience
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target. – Patrick Toche

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Miscellaneous

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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Miscellaneous

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Miscellaneous

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