Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 11281.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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He is not the same, nor is he another.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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