Quotes 22641 till 22660 of 25206.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XII
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