David Grayson
Quotes by David Grayson
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For adventure is not outside a man it is within.
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For adventure is not outside a man it is within.
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What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-If you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with enthusiasm of the adventurer.
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What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-if you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with the enthusiasm of the adventurer!
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Looking at bargains from a purely commercial point of view, someone is always cheated, but looked at with the simple eye both seller and buyer always win.
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What we get in the city is not life, but what someone else tells us about life.
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I do not have to make over the universe; I have only to do my job, great or small, and to look often at the trees and the hills and the sky, and be friendly with all men.
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No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread- there may be.
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
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Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
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Bring out your social remedies! They will fail, they will fail, every one, until each man has his feet somewhere upon the soil.
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Of all obstacles to that complete democracy of which we dream, is there a greater than property?
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How sweet an emotion is possession! What charm is inherent in ownership! What a foundation for vanity, even for the greater quality of self-respect, lies in a little property!
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Back of tranquility lies always conquered unhappiness.
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We are all tolerant enough of those who do not agree with us, provided only they are sufficiently miserable.
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Human happiness is the true odour of growth, the sweet exhalation of work.
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