Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 3165.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
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Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.
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Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
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Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Read good, big important things.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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