Great famous quotes - Page 189

Identity

Trying to define yourself is lik…

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Watts, Alan Wilson

Sorrow

Two aged men, that had been foes…

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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. Tennyson, Frederick

Addiction

Two great European narcotics, al…

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge

Two stones build two houses, thr…

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Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. Yezirah, Sepher

Morals

Two things fill the mind with ev…

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Kant, Immanuel

Love

Unable are the Loved to die For …

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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Dickinson, Emily

Silence

Under all speech that is good fo…

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Carlyle, Thomas

Marriage

Under this window in stormy weat…

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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Swift, Jonathan

Understanding

Understanding does not cure evil…

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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Jung, Carl

Understanding

Understanding is the wages of fa…

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Understanding is the wages of faith. St. Augustine

Understanding

Understanding replaces imaginary…

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Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. Cooley, Mason

Understanding

Understanding the spirit of our …

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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. Lincoln, Abraham