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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about pleasure, bad luck, bad

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, o beauty.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, hell, beauty, contentment

A smile is a cheap way to change your look.

Quote by Charles George Gordon about smile, change

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, future

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Quote by Charles Du Bos about joy, emotions, purpose

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about character, name, contentment, good, good luck

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about sin, faith, spirit, world

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about fear

Through perseverence snail got on the Noah's Ark.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about perseverance

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about enemies, man

Giving is true having.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about generosity

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about god, determination, faith, nothing, life, people

Free will carried many souls to Hell, but never a soul to Heaven.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about will, hell, soul

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about happiness

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about olderness, age, old

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about life, difficulties, man

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about poverty, wealth, people

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about attitude, wish, nothing, contentment

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about people, opinion