Top 100 Austin O'malley Quotes
#1. Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
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#2. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
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#5. 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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#6. Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
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#7. A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
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#8. The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
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#10. Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
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#11. Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
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#12. Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
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#13. Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
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#15. The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
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#16. Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
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#17. Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
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#19. That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
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#21. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
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#22. If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
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#23. Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
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#24. Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
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#26. Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
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#29. In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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#30. Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
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#31. Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
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#32. You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
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#33. A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another
hence her mysteriousness.
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#35. It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
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#37. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
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#38. A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
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#40. If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
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#41. Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
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#42. No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
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#43. The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
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#44. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
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#45. Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
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#46. Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
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#47. The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
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#48. Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
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#50. Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
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#51. Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
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#52. The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
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#55. Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
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#56. Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
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#57. A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
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#58. There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
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#59. If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
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#61. When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
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#62. Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
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#63. Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
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#64. Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
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#65. A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
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#66. We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
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#67. Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
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#68. Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
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#69. True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
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#70. Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.
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#72. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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#73. When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
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#74. The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
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#75. A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
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#80. 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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#81. We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
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#83. 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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#84. You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
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#86. A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
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#87. Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
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#88. 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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#89. Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
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#92. If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
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#94. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
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#96. It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie ...
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#97. Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
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#99. The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
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#100. The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
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