Austin O'Malley Quotes - Page 5

• Nations die first in the big cities.

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  Cities, Firsts, Bigs

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• You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

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  Life, Swim, Hard

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• Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

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  Soul, Gold, Settling

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• Those who deserve love the least need it the most.

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  Deserve Love, Needs, Deserve

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• The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

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  Interesting, Important, Facts

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• Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Humans

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• The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

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  Art, Perfection, Source

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• The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

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  Patience, Dams, Break

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• The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

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  Truth, World

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• You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

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  Character, Solitude, Needs

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• Art is one of man's few serious activities.

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  Art, Men, Serious

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• Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

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  Life, Truth, Errors

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• The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

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  Real, Life Changing, Age

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• Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

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  Friends, Made

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• A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

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  Women, Looks, Way

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• A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

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  Political, Trying, Politician

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• A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

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  Poet, Clock, Repeats

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• A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

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  Sin, Reason, Enough

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• When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

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  Inspirational, Children, Humorous

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• The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

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  Kings, Useless, Quiet

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• Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

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  Light, Owl, Suspicion

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• Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

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  Happiness, Water, Gold

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• The perjurer's mother told white lies.

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  Mother, Liars, Lying

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• The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

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  Age, Sun, Passionate

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• If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

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  Hypocrite, Mean, Ends

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