Quotes 301 till 320 of 607.
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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