Quotes 3221 till 3240 of 5921.
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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.
― Bobbi Kristina Brown
American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015) -
One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
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One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
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