Quotes 5841 till 5860 of 8447.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Source: Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66 -
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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