Quotes 10621 till 10640 of 25201.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
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It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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