Bounds Quotes
239 quotes by 203 authors
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in…
— John Muir
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But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
— Alberto Manguel
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it…
— Robert Frost
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but…
— C.S. Lewis
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the…
— Lord Byron
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four…
— Scott Lynch
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I…
— Jack London
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At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
— Salman Rushdie
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Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that…
— Khalil Gibran
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Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds
— Cassandra Clare
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And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
— Khalil Gibran
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No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more…
— Dion Fortune
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There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves…
— Max Stirner
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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.…
— H.G. Wells
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