Quotes 661 till 680 of 802.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
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There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, he says, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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