Quotes 13641 till 13660 of 25360.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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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 miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64 -
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 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.
Source: A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570 -
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 noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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