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 | 101There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. | | 102There is no influence like the influence of habit. | | 103He 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. | | 104It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. | | 105For when a child is born the mother also is born again. | Mother's Day | 106Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. | Imagination | 107In 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. | | 108He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. | | 109Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. | | 110It 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 | 111It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. | Brainy | 112The real business of life is trying to understand each other. | Life | 113War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. | War | 114Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. | Legal | 115She 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. | | 116Every 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. | | 117Man 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 | 118But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. | | 119Every shot that kills ricochets. | | 120There'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. | | 121Tomorrow is no man's gift. | Future | 122 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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