Alcuin Quotes

#1. The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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#3. The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. What has Ingeld to do with Christ?

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#5. At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

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#6. A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Jeremy Taylor

#7. Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

Stuart Duncan

#8. Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

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#9. Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

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#10. If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

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#11. There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun
the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

Franz Grillparzer

#13. Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

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#14. The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

C.S. Forester

#15. Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. Most of me believed she wouldn't show up today, but a small part of me still held out hope. I can't say that her choice has broken my heart, because that would mean my heart was still whole to be broken.

Colleen Hoover

#17. Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

Elia Kazan

#18. If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

Brian Tracy

#19. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

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#20. Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.

Emily Gabriela Vira

#21. What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

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