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Quotes from Notes of Thought — Charles Buxton

1823–1871 England

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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

Notes of Thought (1883)

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Notes of Thought (1883)

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Notes of Thought (1883)

How strangely easy difficult things are!

Notes of Thought (1883)

Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Notes of Thought (1883)

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Notes of Thought (1883)

One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."

Notes of Thought (1883)

Silence is the severest criticism.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Buxton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.