Quotes 161 till 180 of 263.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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