Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1785.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Source: From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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