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- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- We have power over nothing except our will.
- Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
- I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
- I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch…
- I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we…
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- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
- It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker