Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 15856.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Ethics -
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven. -
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
Epilogue to Constantine the Great -
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
On War (1832) -
Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
Romeo and Juliet (1595) -
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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