Great famous quotes - Page 136

Health

Sickness is a belief, which must…

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Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. Eddy, Mary Baker

Silence

Silence is the most perfect expr…

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. Shaw, George Bernard

Fool

Silence is the wit of fools….

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Silence is the wit of fools. La Bruyere, Jean

Pleasure

Simple pleasures are the last re…

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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Wilde, Oscar

Religion

Sin has many tools, but a lie is…

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Exploration

Since philosophy is the explorat…

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Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. Hegel, […]

Advice

Sincere advice may offend the ea…

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Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct. Chinese Proverb

Ability

Skill and confidence are an unco…

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Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar Herbert, George

Nature

Slave to no sect, who takes no p…

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. Pope, Alexander

Sleep

Sleep is perverse as human natur…

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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. Nash, Ogden

Sleep

Sleep is the interest we have to…

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Schopenhauer, Arthur

Misery

Small miseries, like small debts…

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Colton, […]