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J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the..."
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night! J. R. R. Tolkien
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot quote: "Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we..."
Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. George Eliot
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Martin Luther quote: "Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I..."
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law... Martin Luther
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one. The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him. Paul Brunton
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?"-Bilbo Baggins J. R. R. Tolkien
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz Kafka
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. Joseph Campbell
Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Mark Twain
Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt. George R. R. Martin
He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do. Jean-Paul Sartre
Jane Austen quote: "Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and..."
Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal. Jane Austen
Winston Churchill quote: "It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides."
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides. Winston Churchill

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