Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 3662.
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
Old Curiosity Shop -
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
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