Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 1730.
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
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When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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