Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 1615.
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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