Quotes 441 till 460 of 607.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The people are to be taken in small doses.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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