Quotes 81 till 100 of 147.
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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People are born fools and damned for not being wiser.
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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