Quotes 421 till 440 of 611.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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