Quotes 25021 till 25040 of 25371.
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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