Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 3972.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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Most older men live only in the experience of their youthful years.
Youth and life (1913) -
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
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Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
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Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 176 -
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
Weg der geesten (1996) 30 -
Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi -
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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