Quotes 281 till 300 of 1730.
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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
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Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
King Lear 1,1 -
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Confess yourself to heaven; repent what's past; avoid what is to come.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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