Tag: George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

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The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that’s the essense of inhumanity.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

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