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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. — Baltasar Gracian
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. — Bernard Baruch
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer... his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden. — Viktor E. Frankl
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What… — Alexander Pope
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ. — Matt Chandler
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would… — Ronald Reagan
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with… — Thomas Oden
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life. — E. W. Howe
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no,… — Pearl S. Buck
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love. — Rabindranath Tagore
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the… — Beverly Engel
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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