Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 8624.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
Source: The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342 -
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) -
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Source: Animal Dreams -
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it.
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It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are human beings.
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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
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It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
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