Quotes 281 till 300 of 607.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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Music causes us to think eloquently.
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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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