Quotes 201 till 220 of 263.
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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI -
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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