Importunate Quotes - Page 2

• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Kindness, Divorce

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• Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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

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• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Beauty, Apology

  1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Sight, Calling

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

  Francois Fenelon

  Art, Want, Appetite

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• Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Coretta Scott King

  Hater, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.

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• It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Learning

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Views

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.29, Jain Publishing Company

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Business, Track, Wagons

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.217, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Being Yourself, Stay Strong, Giving Up

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Grandparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soul, Immortality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

  Epicurus

  Men, Charity, Littles

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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