Quotes 321 till 340 of 607.
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Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
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One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Our best history is still poetry.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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