Quotes 261 till 280 of 1547.
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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894) -
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
The Name and Nature of Poetry -
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
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Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
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