Top 24 Dagobert D. Runes Quotes
#1. Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
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#2. Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
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#3. Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.
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#4. Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
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#8. Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
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#10. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.
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#12. True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.
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#13. Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.
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#14. The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.
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#15. The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.
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#16. You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
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#17. Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.
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#19. Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.
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#20. Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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#21. Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
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#22. Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
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#23. That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
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#24. Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.
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