Quotes by Frank Moore Colby - Page 1

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Frank Moore Colby / Writer
God
Anchors
Anxiety
Care
Anchor
Cares
Cast
Holds
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
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Apathy
Brotherly
Tolerance
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Funny
Communication
Humor
Improvement
Terrible
Bore
Makes
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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Anger
Inspiration
People
Merely
Yours
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Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
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Guilt
Harm
Shame
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The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
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Play
Plot
World
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When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
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March
Temptation
Waiting
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You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
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Friendship
Friends
Enemy
True Friend
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In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
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Politics
Acquisition
Politician
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
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Country
Said
Sin
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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Running
Chance
Noses
Ought
Escape
Mental
No Chance
Nose
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Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
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Expression
Judging
People
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Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
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Fame
Reputation
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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Arriving
Mind
Way
Anywhere
Nearly
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There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
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Men
Book
Reading
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A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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Thinker
Closely
Merely
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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Committees
Meetings
Persist
Reasonable
Would Be
Carry
Committee
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As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
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Men
War
Mind
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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Consolation
Fun
Mankind
Mind
Progress
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Inspirational
Humor
Men
Teeth
Treason
Confess
False
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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Men
Bottom
Ethics
Integrity
Reasons
Remaining
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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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Men
Feats
Littles
Memories
Canal
Literary
Learns
Memory
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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Art
Nature
New York
Regard
Atrocious
Wholesome
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby / Writer
Love
Apathy
Brotherly
Nine
Persecution
Tolerance
Composed
Parts
Sign
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Anger
Angry
Disagreeable
Particular
Situation
Generally
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I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Anger
Feelings
Particular
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As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
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Crowds
Littles
Mean
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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Lonely
Rights
Sarcasm
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Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.
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Moral
Rendering
Sound
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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Life
Clever
Intelligent
Pleasure
Relish
Life Always People
Life People Feel
Answering
Chief
Clever People
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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Men
Cities
Intense
Office
Suffrage
Triumph
Consider
Efforts
Large
Mayor
Merely
Steal
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Wise
Criminals
Humble
Modest
Requirements
Criminal
Hopes
Otherwise
Ridiculously
Strangely
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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Men
Civilization
Drawing
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby / Writer
Failure
Travel
Adventure
Continuance
Every Man
Excuse
Heart
Inquisitive
Ought
Shadow
Sun
Great Heart Man
Cast
Hour
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