Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1106.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
Path, motive, guide, original and end.Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27 -
God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
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Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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