Quotes 6541 till 6560 of 6634.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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Conscience does make cowards of us all.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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Every good servant does not all commands.
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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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