Top 100 Austin O'Malley Quotes
#1. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
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#4. If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
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#5. A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
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#6. Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
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#7. Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
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#9. Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
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#11. That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
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#13. If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
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#14. Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
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#15. Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
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#19. Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
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#20. Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
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#22. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
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#23. A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
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#25. No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
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#26. The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
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#27. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
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#28. Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
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#29. Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
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#31. Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
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#32. A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
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#34. Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
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#35. Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
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#36. Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
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#37. A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
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#38. Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
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#39. Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
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#40. True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
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#42. The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
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#43. A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
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#47. Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.
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#49. You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
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#51. A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
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#52. Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
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#53. A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
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#56. Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
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#57. The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
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#59. Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
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#61. Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
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#62. Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.
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#63. Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
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#64. No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
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#66. And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
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#67. Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
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#68. Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
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#69. The weaker the man in authority ... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
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#71. The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
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#72. Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
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#73. Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
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#74. You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
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#75. The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
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#76. The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
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#77. Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
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#78. 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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#79. When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
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#82. After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
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#83. Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
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#84. The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.
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#86. Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
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#87. The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
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#89. A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
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#90. You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
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#91. You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
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#93. Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
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#94. Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
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#95. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
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#97. If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
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#98. An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
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#100. The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
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