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Quote 3646
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3630
The human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3622
Character is what a man really is, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3618
That is to eat thee up.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3617
Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3616
That is to hear the better, my child.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3615
Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3614
That is the better to hug thee, my dear.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3613
Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3612
Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3609
Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3608
The good life must be lived in a good society, and is not fully possible otherwise.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3606
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings; I have used it purposely, as I wish to include them all.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3605
I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3604
In the world of values, Nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad, deserving of neither admiration nor censure.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3603
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3602
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3601
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3600
It is the sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing, and afraid of doubting.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3599
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3598
It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3597
It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3596
Whoso would deserve well of his fellows in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3595
How are we to face our queen, said the three mice, when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3594
No, it is mine, cried the lame one, for I ran off with the ring.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3593
No, indeed, cried the mouse with the cropped ears; the credit is mine.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3592
Which of us deserves the most credit? they cried all at once.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3591
Atisha! atisha! sneezed the old man, but he did not wake, and the shock made the bronze ring jump out of his mouth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3589
Several mice offered themselves for this mission and set out to find the young captain.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3587
The world is a unity, and the man who pretends to live independently is a conscious or unconscious parasite.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3585
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3581
It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3580
It is we who create value, and our desires which confer value.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3578
But I cannot help doing this great wrong toward Man, that I make myself credulous.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3577
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3576
This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come; for at any rate this great evil has come, that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3574
The most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is known about it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3572
The object is in constant change.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3571
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3562
All arguments are ended.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3561
Blood is upon us again, blood spilled for a perfidious king.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3560
Here are ten lines of the bitterest damnation that ever came from the mind of treason.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3557
We mislike no bishops save that they stand by a tyrannous church.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3555
It is plain sense.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3554
What in the name of God is this?by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3552
I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3551
Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3550
In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3549
Success is certain when all free peoples are in array against the last convulsions of savagery.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3546
I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3545
I can really only thank you for your too flattering letter, inspired by our old friendship.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3542
Are they not all aware, that so long as they thought of the king as their common foe, and were at unity with one another, they were secure in their prosperity?by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3539
The duty of those who claim to advise you here was to discuss the situation impartially, and to inquire, in an uncontentious spirit, what course is best in your interests.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3538
My own belief is that our cause, the cause of justice, and its supporters, will prove stronger in every emergency than the traitor and the foreigner.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3533
In this place you may fearlessly stay.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3532
I wish you to be attired as befits your rank and beauty.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3530
Say yes or no without fear.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3528
A celebrated physician has just come from Janina in Albania. He alone can cure the King and give him back the strength of his youth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3525
The two things which never seem to be considered are the interests of Literature and the interests of the public.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3524
A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3523
In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3522
Books, on the other hand, of unusual and distinguished merit are despatched summarily in a few lines of equally undeserved depreciation.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3521
Books displaying in their writers the grossest ignorance of the very rudiments of the subjects treated, and literally swarming with blunders and absurdities, all of which pass undetected and unnoticed, are made the subjects of elaborate panegyrics.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3520
They will pose as authorities and pronounce ex cathedrâ on subjects literary, historical, and scientific of which they know nothing more than what they have contrived to pick up from the works which they are "reviewing."Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3519
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3518
Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3517
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3516
There it is worse than presumption to believe.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3515
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3514
We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3513
We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3510
The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3509
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3508
The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3507
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3506
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3505
Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3504
The plain intention of an honest man.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3503
I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3502
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3501
They were barbarians and wreckers.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3500
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3499
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3498
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3497
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3496
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3495
The Bodleian at this moment harbours within its walls well-nigh half a million of printed volumes, some scores of precious manuscripts in all the tongues, and has become a name famous throughout the whole civilized world.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3494
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3493
You can control nothing but your own mind.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3492
In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3491
The human machine is an apparatus of brain and muscle for enabling the Ego to develop freely in the universe by which it is surrounded, without friction.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3490
And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3481
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3480
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3479
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3478
Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3473
The horror! The horror!by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3472
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3471
The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
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