Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 3090.
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also His infinite justice.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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