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Thought and Reason
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.8 · 12 votes · 89 reads
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Feelings
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.1 · 21 votes · 88 reads
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Thought and Reason
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.7 · 29 votes · 15 reads
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Society
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift
WriterIrish1667 · 17th century
3.6 · 39 votes · 101 reads
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Feelings
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
C. S. Lewis
AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century
3.2 · 59 votes · 72 reads
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Various
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Butler Yeats
PoetIrish1865 · 19th century
4.7 · 24 votes · 67 reads
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Various
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century
3.5 · 21 votes · 150 reads
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Various
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen
WriterIrish1899 · 19th century
3.1 · 26 votes · 20 reads
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