Quotes 261 till 280 of 1785.
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
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Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Source: Hail and Farewell (1911) -
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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