Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 10005.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Source: Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725) -
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
Source: Epilogue to Constantine the Great -
Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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