Quotes 8501 till 8520 of 8624.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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