Quotes 301 till 320 of 393.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
Beyond a Boundary (1963) -
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation. Our competitiveness as a nation is not inevitable. It will not just happen. - January 7, 2004.
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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