Quotes 10301 till 10320 of 25297.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III -
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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