Quotes 5941 till 5960 of 6002.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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