Francois Guizot famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.
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Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
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The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.
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The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
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The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
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If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.
-- Francois Guizot
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
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It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
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The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
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