Quotes 21 till 39 of 39.
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
Mother Courage and Her Children -
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
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There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
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Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
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When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
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