Quotes 3221 till 3240 of 3899.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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There is no purifier like knowledge in this world:
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There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, [as if] they're not really alive.
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There is no secret so close as between a rider and his horse.
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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.The merchant of Venice 3, 2 -
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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