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Gilbert Parker [1862-1932] British
Rank: 102
Politician


Brainy, Friendship, Future, Imagination, Legal, Life, Love, Morning, Mother's Day, War

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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. Love
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
102
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
103
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
105
For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Mother's Day
106
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. Imagination
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
109
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Friendship
111
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Brainy
112
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Life
113
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. War
114
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. Legal
115
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
117
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. Morning
118
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
119
Every shot that kills ricochets.
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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Tomorrow is no man's gift. Future
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