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10 quotes for today - 30 January 2019

John Updike (Photo: The Vineyard Gazette)

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett


Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain


Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill


Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike


The wisest men follow their own direction.
- Euripides


Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
- Homer, The Odyssey


My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Mary Shelly

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