Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 3090.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial. The camera is so utterly unmechanical.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Surprised by Joy (1955) -
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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