Quotes 6981 till 7000 of 15856.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
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It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
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It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Æsop's Fables, Reflection -
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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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, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342 -
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, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) -
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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