Quotes 601 till 620 of 714.
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
Works (1787) -
To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
A Distant Mirror -
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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