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Quote 3507
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3506
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3505
Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3504
The plain intention of an honest man.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3501
They were barbarians and wreckers.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3500
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3497
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3496
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3494
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3493
You can control nothing but your own mind.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3492
In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3489
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3488
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3487
No newspaper reading in trains!by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3486
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3485
He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3484
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3483
You can only waste the passing moment.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3482
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
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 wisdom
Quote 3480
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3479
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3478
Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3477
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3476
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
More quotes on the topics: experience wisdom reality
Quote 3475
It is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3474
And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble—the heart pain—the world pain.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3472
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3470
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3468
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3466
Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3465
What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3461
Centaur, fear for thy life!by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3460
My heart is worth more than that of a vile mortal who dwells in your towns.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3459
Still thou wouldst love me, still that more than life retain.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3458
They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3457
It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3455
To be a kind of nothing for a moment.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3454
Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3452
God, who truly knows me, knows that I am nothing.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3451
For then Reason, like a bad Hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3450
I cannot fall out, or contemn a man for an errour, or conceive why a difference in Opinion should divide an affection.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3449
I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3448
I can study, play, or sleep in a tempest.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3447
In brief, I am averse from nothing: my conscience would give me the lie if I should absolutely detest or hate any essence but the devil; or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3446
The Cabinet is an absolutely secret committee, which can dissolve the assembly which appointed it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3445
The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3444
The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3443
The efficient parts only employ that power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3442
The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force - which attract its motive power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3441
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3440
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3439
Business is really pleasanter than pleasure, though it does not look so.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3438
So few people who can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3437
The most galling of yokes is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3436
In the midst of life we are in death.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3435
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3433
I was very seldom idle, but having regularly divided my time according to the several daily employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the reading the Scriptures.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3432
I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3431
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3430
It is never too late to be wise.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3429
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3428
As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3427
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3421
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes - naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3417
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3416
Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That fits him for the place.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3415
This truth, philosophy, though eagle-eyed In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks; And, having found his own mind, in the rest disclaims it.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3414
To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt A wish to be a man, and knew the world.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3413
He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3412
Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life!by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3411
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3410
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3408
CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3406
A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3404
Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3403
Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3401
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3400
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3399
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3397
The first degree contains only notions so clear of themselves that they can be acquired without meditation.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3396
I shall be very glad to make plain in this discourse the paths I have followed, and to picture my life so that all may judge of it, and by the setting forth of their opinions may furnish me with yet other means of improvement.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3395
My mind is no better than another's, but I have been lucky enough to chance on certain ways, which have led me to a certain method by means of which it seems to me that I may by degrees augment my knowledge to the modest measure of my intellect and my length of days.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3394
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3393
It does not suffice that the understanding be good - it must be well applied.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3392
The reading, not of all books, but especially of such as have been written by persons capable of conveying proper instruction, for it is a species of conversation we hold with their authors.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3391
I think, therefore I am.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3390
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3389
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3387
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3385
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3384
There is no conceivable way of making people do things they do not wish to do.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3383
What God hath made, into that let man inquire.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on wisdom
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