Quotes 261 till 280 of 652.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
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It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do - or don't do.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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