MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road.… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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