Quotes 121 till 140 of 147.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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