Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1240.
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
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Without an education, you won't have a future.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
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