Quotes 4361 till 4380 of 10185.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Æsop's Fables, Reflection -
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342 -
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) -
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Animal Dreams -
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
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