Great famous quotes - Page 179

Courage

This is courage in a man: to bea…

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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. Euripides

Courage

This is no time for ease and com…

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. Churchill, Winston

Freedom

This is not a contest between pe…

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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity. Bryan, William Jennings

Science

This is one of those cases in wh…

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. Churchill, Winston

Identity

This is perhaps the most distinc…

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This is perhaps the most distinctive Buddhist teaching, that suffering is the product of ‘the craving of the passions, the craving for existence, the craving fornonexistence.’ It is, however, far from an obvious truth. Certain cases of suffering areplainly due to craving, namely, those that are due to frustrated desires. Desires may be eased by […]

Epithets

This is the epitaph I want on my…

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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: “Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. Mussolini, Benito

Creation

This is the truth: As from a fi…

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This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. Upanishads

Death

This man is freed from servile b…

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. Herrick, Robert

Marriage

This seemed a dreary and wasted …

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This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard’s mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private […]

Love

This was love at first sight, lo…

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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. Mann, Thomas

Business

This whole business of Trade giv…

10 Sep , 2009  

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on […]

World

This world is all a fleeting sho…

10 Sep , 2009  

This world is all a fleeting show, For man’s illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, – There’s nothing true but Heaven. Moore, Thomas