Gilbert Parker Quotes

• It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

  Gilbert Parker

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Memories, Stupid, World

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.206

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• The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

  Gilbert Parker

  Real, Trying, Life Is

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

  Gilbert Parker

  Love, Relationship, Stars

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every shot that kills ricochets.

  Gilbert Parker

  Shots, Ricochet

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

  Gilbert Parker

  Roots, Imagination

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

  Gilbert Parker

  Memories, Men, Worst Enemy

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no influence like the influence of habit.

  Gilbert Parker

  Positive, Influence, Habit

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Men, Thinking, Should Have

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• When a child is born the mother also is born again.

  Gilbert Parker

  Mother, Children, Born Again

  Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”

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• 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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Morning, Heart, Men

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

  Gilbert Parker

  Broken Heart, Pride, Broken Love

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

  Gilbert Parker

  May, Ends

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Beautiful, Mean, Mind

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Race, Fierce, Harm

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Fall, Credit, Want

  Gilbert Parker (1907). “The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago”, p.240, Library of Alexandria

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• Tomorrow is no man's gift.

  Gilbert Parker

  Men, Tomorrow

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• Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

  Gilbert Parker

  Winning, Law, Win Or Lose

  Gilbert Parker (2013). “The Money Master”, p.208, Lulu Press, Inc

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• War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

  Gilbert Parker

  War, Cruelty, Gentle

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.

  Gilbert Parker

  Stars, Distance, Eye

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Light, Goal, Forever

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

  Gilbert Parker

  Love, Heart, Thee

  Gilbert Parker (1913). “The Works of Gilbert Parker”

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• But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

  Gilbert Parker

  Games, Joy, Buying

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Gilbert Parker

  Friendship, Men, Years

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.173

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