Darkly Comical Quotes

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years. Issac Taylor

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. – Sir William Hamilton

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. – H.W. Arnold

Better to slip with the foot than with the tongue. – English Proverb

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. – Tolstoi

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things. – Sir Henry Haddow

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind. – Socrates

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important aims of philosophy. – Voltaire