Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.… — Solomon Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
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