Easily Quotes

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more… — Baruch Spinoza
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that… — Baruch Spinoza
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily… — Muriel Spark
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. — Anne Tyler
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider… — Okakura Kakuzo
The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. — Annie Dillard
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… — Benjamin Franklin
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. — Abraham Lincoln
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as… — Joseph Conrad
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. — Richard Whately
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it… — Lucy Larcom
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of… — Robert Benchley
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them… — Epicurus
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. — Max Beerbohm
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too… — Lewis Mumford
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my… — Giacomo Casanova

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