Quotes 24801 till 24820 of 25206.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
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A plague of sighing and grie blows a man up like a bladder.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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