Quotes 21 till 40 of 63.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
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It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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