Quotes 281 till 300 of 479.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
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She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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Sir Henry you haven't been asked a question for a while. And I'm not going to ask you one.
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!.
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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