Quotes 3821 till 3840 of 4321.
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
Ethics, part 2 -
We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
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