Quotes 521 till 540 of 612.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2 -
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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