Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 4582.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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