Quotes 141 till 160 of 326.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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It is no sign of intellectual greatness to hold other men cheaply. A great intellect takes for granted that other men are more or less like itself.
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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
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It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
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It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily heurt the stile-a
A merry heart goes all the day,
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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