Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1240.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 134 -
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
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We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
Joseph Andrews preface -
We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
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