Quotes with finer

  • Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
  • Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
  • Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Smith Books are a finer world within the world.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Charles Dickens Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Nicholson Baker Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Charles Dickens It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Aristotle Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Keats Scenery is fine, bui human nature is finer.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Winston Churchill There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Will Rogers There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Tony Benn We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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