Quotes 2181 till 2200 of 13894.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47 -
Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
Notes from a Small Island -
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725) -
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Ethics -
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
Romeo and Juliet (1595) -
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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