Quotes 581 till 600 of 802.
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
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