Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 1785.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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