And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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