Quotes 661 till 680 of 4622.
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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263 -
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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