Quotes 11541 till 11560 of 13894.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
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