W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Belief
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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