Quotes 941 till 960 of 3090.
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He has lived for peace, but he died for his principles.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
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He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand come down empty...Tapestry (1971) -
He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
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