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- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm…
- Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before…
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- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus
- Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou… — William Shakespeare
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson
- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C.S. Lewis
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball