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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As… — Helen Keller
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. — John Stuart Mill
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church… — Eric Clapton
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me… — Ashly Lorenzana
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake… — Horace Mann
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Look before you leap. — John Heywood
Ask before offering advice or reassurance. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. — Bram Stoker
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. — Miguel Syjuco
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away. — Richard Bach
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed… — Peter Altenberg
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world… — Buenaventura Durruti
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs,… — Genghis Khan
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. — Albert Einstein
A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put… — Martin Luther
What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God. — Origen
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our… — Pope Gregory I
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is… — John Calvin
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it… — John Calvin
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the… — Ramakrishna

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