Quotes 5981 till 6000 of 10786.
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Nothing can come out of the artist that is not in the man.
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Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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