Quotes 201 till 220 of 257.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
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This woman woke up to see me and John Stamos banging on her windows. She must have thought she died and went to sitcom hell.
Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007) -
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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