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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

—Oscar Wilde

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

—Plato

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Plato

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

The one who learns and learns and doesn’t practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

—Plato

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

—René Descartes

it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.

—René Descartes

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

—Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

—Immanuel Kant

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

—Immanuel Kant

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

—Immanuel Kant

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

—Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

—Aristotle

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

—Charlie Chaplin

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

—Charlie Chaplin

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

—Oscar Wilde

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

—William Shakespeare

Looking back, there is so much to grieve over. We can see nothing at all in ourselves to praise, but so much in our Savior. His patience has never failed. He has never given up hope for us. There is something very heartening in this.

—Amy Carmichael

O for a love, for burning love

Like fervent flame of fire;

O for a love, for yearning love,

Love that will never tire;

Lord, in my need I appeal to Thee,

Grant me now my heart’s desire.

—Amy Carmichael

But do not settle down into an attitude of It will never be different. It will be different if only, in earnest, we follow on to know the Lord (Hos. 6:3).

—Amy Carmichael

Persecution never did, never could, give any lasting wound to genuine Christianity.

—John Wesley

So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.

—Amy Carmichael

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

And from the time we are accepted through the Beloved, reconciled to God through His blood, He loves, and blesses, and watches over us for good, even as if we had never sinned.

—John Wesley

An argument never persuades anyone; it divides and embitters people. An argument influences a person’s opinion like a hammer influences a nail.

—Leo Tolstoy

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

—Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

—Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

—Mark Twain

The man who is willing to settle for barren life will never experience the joy of the Holy Spirit or the deep satisfaction of fruitful living

—AW Tozer

I believe that a mighty resurgence of the Spirit’s power among us will open again wells of hymnody long forgotten. For song can never bring the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit does invariably bring song.

—AW Tozer