Quotes 241 till 260 of 1874.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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