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James M. Barrie Quotes
James M. Barrie
British
Playwright
Born:
May 9
,
1860
Died:
Jun 19
,
1937
Believe
Child
Life
Little
Will
You
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie
Love
Humble
Vain
More
Make
Does
Praise
Us
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
Love
Unhappy
No-One
Loves
Who
Even
Rainbow
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie
Wisdom
World
Never
Know
Until
Understand
How
Loss
Little
Need
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
Life
Man
Every
Write
Writes
Volume
He
Hour
Vowed
Make
Another
His
Diary
Story
Which
Means
Compares
Every Man
Humblest
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
Work
You
Nothing
Else
Unless
Would
Something
Something Else
Rather
Doing
Really
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie
Life
Try
Rule
Kinder
Shall
New
Make
Always
Than
Little
Necessary
Tonight
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie
Temper
Weapon
Blade
Hold
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie
Time
You
Slip
Must
Some
Only
Hours
Because
Been
Golden
Against
Them
Warned
Letting
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie
You
Woman
Matter
Else
Sort
Bloom
Anything
Anything Else
Much
Need
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie
You
Sometimes
Past
Back
Way
Drawer
Out
Find
Something
More
Open
Particular
Safe
Force
Falls
Often
Crammed
Anything
Chilly
Interesting
Searching
Recalling
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
Kinder
Always
Than
Little
Necessary
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
James M. Barrie
Will
Big
Adventure
Die
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie
Own
Never
Opponent
Motives
Than
Ascribe
Meaner
Your
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
Work
You
Else
Unless
Would
Something
Something Else
Rather
Real
Doing
Real Work
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie
Life
Me
Opportunity
Bacon
Seems
Shakespeare
He
Missed
Know
Wrote
His
Sir
Did
Whether
Works
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
Ambition
Minds
Noble
Last
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