Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 4622.
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It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.
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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
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It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
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