Quotes 401 till 420 of 1240.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
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I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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