Quotes 14881 till 14900 of 26499.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion - it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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