Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 4661.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
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In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Source: Speech in Manchester (1866)
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