Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 4180.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 31 -
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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