Quotes 141 till 160 of 560.
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
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Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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