Quotes with springs

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  • James Allen The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bertrand Russell We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Barton When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bessie Smith When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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