Quotes 221 till 240 of 607.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly.
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If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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