Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 4330.
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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570 -
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
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