Quotes 281 till 300 of 1615.
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
Source: Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92 -
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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