James Joyce Quotes, Lasts Quotes, Firsts Quotes

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

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It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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