Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1390 authors
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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is…
— Catherine Ponder
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God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and…
— Richard Salter Storrs
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In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of…
— Antoine Pinay
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If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink.…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is…
— Hugh Black
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Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy…
— Blaise Pascal
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Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
— Samuel Johnson
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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
— Blaise Pascal
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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion…
— William Stanley Jevons
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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest,…
— Matthew Arnold
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Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.
— Gustav Holst
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into…
— Hermann Hesse
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
— Wendell Berry
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National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
— Richard Rorty
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This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -…
— Abraham Lincoln
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War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
— Julius Caesar
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Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself…
— Erich Fromm
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