Quote by Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas

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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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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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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. – Louise Beal

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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise ones neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. – Aleister Crowley

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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. – William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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