Quotes 621 till 640 of 701.
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Unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us.
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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
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Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
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We are all at times unconscious prophets.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.
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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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