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Quote 3646
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3642
Evil is so made to wait upon good in this world—to quicken it by alarm, to brighten it by contrast.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3641
In a wet time it rains to-day because it rained yesterday, and will rain to-morrow.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3637
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3625
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3621
All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3619
Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3617
Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3616
That is to hear the better, my child.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3615
Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3612
Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3611
The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3608
The good life must be lived in a good society, and is not fully possible otherwise.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3607
Men have sacrificed their lives to helping lepers in such a case, the love they felt cannot have had any element of aesthetic delight.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3602
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3599
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3598
It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3594
No, it is mine, cried the lame one, for I ran off with the ring.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3593
No, indeed, cried the mouse with the cropped ears; the credit is mine.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3592
Which of us deserves the most credit? they cried all at once.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3590
What is to be done? said the Queen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3589
Several mice offered themselves for this mission and set out to find the young captain.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3588
Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3587
The world is a unity, and the man who pretends to live independently is a conscious or unconscious parasite.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3586
That is why love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3585
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3584
Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3583
Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3582
Knowledge and love are both indefinitely extensible; therefore, however good a life may be, a better life can be imagined.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3581
It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3580
It is we who create value, and our desires which confer value.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3579
Man is a part of Nature, not something contrasted with Nature.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3578
But I cannot help doing this great wrong toward Man, that I make myself credulous.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3575
There is always a suggestion of some sort, either the end of a train of thought or a new sensation; and there is an action ensuing, either the movement of a muscle or set of muscles, or the fixing of attention upon something.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3574
The most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is known about it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3573
A Cabinet is a combining committee.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3572
The object is in constant change.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3570
I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3566
I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3565
I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3564
I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3563
Time presses.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3562
All arguments are ended.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3558
We attack not faiths or opinions, but despotism.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3555
It is plain sense.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3553
I desire only to witness the day of the great victory, then I shall be rewarded far beyond my merits.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3552
I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3550
In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3547
France is making incredible sacrifices every day.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3545
I can really only thank you for your too flattering letter, inspired by our old friendship.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3543
Do not then lay bare the evil condition of Hellas, by calling the powers together when they will not obey, or undertaking a war which you will be unable to carry on.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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Quote 3541
We must, therefore, take care not to allow the Spartans to attain a formidable degree of strength.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3540
There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3536
Why, when we have our acknowledged foes, do we seek to procure others?by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3535
But a conflict of forces requires nothing so much as brave men; and of these, I believe, the larger number is with us, and with those who share our danger.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3534
There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3533
In this place you may fearlessly stay.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3532
I wish you to be attired as befits your rank and beauty.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3531
I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3529
I have no fear, no matter how fast you go.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3527
For your reward you must demand the bronze ring which has the power to grant you everything you desire.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3526
It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3523
In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3519
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3517
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3516
There it is worse than presumption to believe.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3515
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3512
We have no reason to fear lest a habit of conscientious inquiry should paralyze the actions of our daily life.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3511
It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3508
The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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