Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 5500.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
Source: On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860. -
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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Dear Mum, I know you're always there
To help and guide me with all your care,
You nursed and fed me and made me strong
To face the world and all its wrong.Source: Dear Mum -
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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