Quotes 381 till 400 of 1789.
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He served his God so faithfully and well
that now he sees him face to face, in Hell. -
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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He that is well paid is well satisfied.
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
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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.
Source: Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29 -
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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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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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
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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