Quotes 361 till 380 of 479.
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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Source: Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
Source: The Lost World (2015) 72 -
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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