Quotes 581 till 600 of 13894.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
― St. John of the Cross
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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