Quotes 3761 till 3780 of 4582.
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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
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There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
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There is no purifier like knowledge in this world:
time makes man find himself in his heart.
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