Quotes 10521 till 10540 of 10692.
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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Christian: One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
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