Quotes 8561 till 8580 of 8624.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.
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