Quotes 41 till 60 of 147.
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
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