Quotes 101 till 120 of 156.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, I our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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That you can speak so well, and do so ill!
The Fatal Dowry (1632) 1, 1 -
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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