Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 20393.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
De last die ze droegen (1990) 80 -
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
The art spirit
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