Quotes 301 till 320 of 1359.
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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29 -
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
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