Amid Quotes
292 quotes by 236 authors
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we…
— Saint Basil
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
— Buffalo Bill
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
— Robert Burns
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still…
— R. H. Tawney
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural…
— Epicurus
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
— Herbert Spencer
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of…
— Arthur Balfour
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted…
— John Playfair
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte
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