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Quotes 921 till 940 of 1326.

• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

  ― Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

  ― Charles Sumner
  American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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• The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

  ― Bill Veeck
  American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

  ― Cyril Connolly
  British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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• The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  ― Ralph J. Cudworth
  English clergyman
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• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  ― William Gilmore Simms
  American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

  Source: Point Omega (2010) 17

  ― Don DeLillo
  American Author (1936 - )
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• The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

  Source: London Fields (1989)

  ― Martin Amis
  British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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• The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

  ― Matthew Arnold
  British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  ― Alan Greenspan
  American economist (1926 - )
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• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  ― Ann Landers
  American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  ― John Lyly
  English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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• The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

  ― Ban Ki-moon
  South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.
  

  Source: All Religions are One (1788)

  ― William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

  ― Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intelligibility
• intelligible
• civilization
• manipulating
• overthrown
• reputation

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