Quotes 341 till 360 of 394.
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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
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They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
Source: Chance (1913) -
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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We always plan too much and always think too little.
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We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
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We build too many walls around us and not enough bridges into the lives of others.
Source: The One Great Church: Adventures of Faith (1948)
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