“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Source: Middlemarch
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”
“Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”
"Herbert West: Re-Animator" in "Home Brew" Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1922)
Fiction
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
Source: A Prisoner of Birth
“There's a difference between the wordsand. And it's more than three words.”
Source: The Moon and More
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion”