Quotes 721 till 740 of 1240.
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.
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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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