Eubie Blake famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
A promise must never be broken.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

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