Quotes 721 till 740 of 1785.
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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In every parting there is an image of death.
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life, Amos Barton -
In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
Source: Childe Harold 1, 20 -
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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