“Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who… — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults. — Thea Astley Copy Share Image
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow. — John Leo Copy Share Image
He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path,… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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