Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 4603.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities patience, poise, and restraint to the flame.
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Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
On War (1832) -
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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