Quotes 3841 till 3860 of 4532.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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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 act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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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 array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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