Quotes 201 till 220 of 286.
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
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