Quotes 281 till 300 of 411.
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
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