Quotes 13741 till 13760 of 25602.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4. -
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
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