Quotes 41 till 60 of 683.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
Lord of the Silver Bow (2005) -
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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