Quotes 581 till 600 of 701.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
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Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To be happy you must be your own sunshine.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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