Quotes 401 till 420 of 1813.
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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.
Source: 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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Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
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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 can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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How I wish you could see the potential
The potential of you and me
It's like a book elegantly bound, but
In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
You got to spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find love
I will possess your heartSource: Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart -
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 many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
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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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