Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2072.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Source: 'Virginibus Puerisque ' An Apology for Idlers' (1881) -
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.
Source: His Last Bow (1917) -
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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