Quotes 121 till 140 of 607.
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Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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