Quotes 661 till 680 of 1159.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
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