Quotes 861 till 880 of 6261.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A transcendent being can be any miracle.
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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