Quotes 281 till 300 of 327.
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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