Quotes 661 till 680 of 1350.
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Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
Pensees (1669) -
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
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Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
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