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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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