Quotes 5221 till 5240 of 12035.
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It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
Source: Dracula -
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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