Quotes 141 till 160 of 409.
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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound--some-times to an extravagant activity.
How I found Livingstone (1872) Ch. 6 -
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
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