Quotes 261 till 280 of 655.
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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others.
Letters (1892) -
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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