Quotes 161 till 180 of 312.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), On the Conversations of Lords -
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Robinson Crusoe (1719) -
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Homeland and Other Stories -
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus -
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
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