Quotes 421 till 440 of 479.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
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We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
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We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) -
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
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What goes up must come down.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903) -
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
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