Quotes 121 till 140 of 317.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
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