Quotes 421 till 440 of 25414.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
De Profundis -
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244 -
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
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