Quotes 13601 till 13620 of 25274.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
Source: A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570 -
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Source: The conquest of happiness -
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
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Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
Source: Dracula (1897) Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward -
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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