Quotes 561 till 580 of 707.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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