The best Quotes by Gilbert Parker

The best Quotes by Gilbert Parker

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain Joseph Parker, R.A.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.
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If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?
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It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.
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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.
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One of the hardest things is to stop loving someone, because they stopped loving you...
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart.
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There’s a difference between saying good bye and letting go. Saying good bye is 'I'll see you again when I'm ready to hold your hand, and when you're ready to hold mine.' Letting go is 'I'll miss your hand. But I realized it's not mine to hold, and I will never hold it again.'
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Never let pride be your guiding principle! Let your accomplishments speak for you.
If pride gives us pause, my love, then perhaps we have lived long enough already.
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People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
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I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
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The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.
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Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.
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The truth is, it's all of your memories, the joyful ones and the heartbreaking ones, that make up who you are as a person.
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.
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If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
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Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.
Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?
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Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.
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Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?
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Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.
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I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
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They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.
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War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.
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I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.
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A mother's love is the ultimate comfort.
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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If true and unconditional love exists in this world, then it has to be the love between a mother and a child.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalms - 139,14
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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