Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 25144.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
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A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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