Quotes 421 till 440 of 10005.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it againSource: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
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