Aught Quotes
58 quotes by 44 authors
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Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
— Gelett Burgess
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
— Homer
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Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more…
— Paul Morphy
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The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the…
— John Burnside
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
— William Wordsworth
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Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an…
— Samuel Adams
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at…
— William James
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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his…
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
— John Milton
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with…
— John Milton
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know,…
— Chauncey Wright
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I have seen the face of Jesus, Â Â Â Â Â Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus,…
— J. Oswald Sanders
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
— Khalil Gibran
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Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
— Samuel Rogers
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Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches…
— John Milton
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