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  • Henry Fielding It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Audre Lorde It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 44
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
    Baha'u'llah
    Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817 - 1892)
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  • Henry Fielding It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Immanuel Kant It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Epictetus It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • John Ruskin It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Marie Dressler It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • Anaxagoras It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • George Edward Woodberry It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Camille Paglia It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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