Quotes 481 till 500 of 1175.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
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In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
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It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
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