Quotes 541 till 560 of 1397.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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