Finest Quotes

• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Carpe Diem, Fire, Steel

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.525, Best Books on

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Secret, Life Is

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Kindness, Pleasure, Kindness To Others

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• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pain, Thinking, Action

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.497, Random House

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• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Simple, Language Words

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• The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

  Mark Twain

  Society, Skins, Demand

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.563, University of Alabama Press

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• I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

  Stephen King

  Trying, Proud, Emotion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Creating, Next

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• An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Class, Brain, Want

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• The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Earth, Fruit

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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

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• The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Writing, Grass, Immune

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• If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

  Arlene Francis

  Thinking, Over You, Chance

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Healing, Quality

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.15, Graphic Arts Books

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Maturity, Atmosphere

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons”, p.9

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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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