Quotes 441 till 460 of 26101.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244 -
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
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Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
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