Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 5913.
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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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