Quotes 101 till 120 of 263.
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
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Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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