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Quotes 961 till 980 of 1240.

• The sun is but a morning star.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

  ― Henry James
  American author (1843 - 1916)
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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  ― Henry Kissinger
  American politician (1923 - 2023)
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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  ― Henry Kissinger
  American politician (1923 - 2023)
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• The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

  ― Henry James
  American author (1843 - 1916)
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• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

  ― Henry S. Haskins
  American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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• The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

  ― Henry James
  American author (1843 - 1916)
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• The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

  ― Henry Home
  British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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• The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

  Source: Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

  ― Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

  ― Henry Wheeler Shaw
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

  ― Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• arteriosclerosis
• affirmatively
• time-honored
• schoolmaster
• civilization
• intelligent

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