Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 4570.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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