Quote by Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? - Norman Dougl

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. – George William Curtis

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. – Johann Georg Hamann

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Its very hard to know what wisdom is. – James Hillman

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Remembering is painful, its difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. – Paul Greengrass

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. – James Allen

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why youre together, which is that you just like each other. – Chris Martin

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, theyre going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and theyre going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. – Doug Coupland

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