Quotes 5341 till 5360 of 6261.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
Source: Hamlet 2,2
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