Quotes 361 till 380 of 607.
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Society is a hospital of incurables.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''
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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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