Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy…
— Hugh Black
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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more…
— Thomas Browne
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
— Henry David Thoreau
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle…
— Phillips Brooks
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There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.
— Michael Josephson
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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,…
— Stephen Covey
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Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty…
— Rajneesh
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Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be is here, and…
— Rajneesh
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With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -…
— Rajneesh
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This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy…
— Rajneesh
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From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find…
— Rajneesh
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
— Mother Teresa
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It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot…
— Henri Bergson
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The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction…
— Charles Darwin
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You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she…
— Charles Kingsley
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The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and…
— Francis Collins
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