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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As… — William Shakespeare
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… — Thomas Carlyle
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a… — Marya Mannes
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility. — Jean Cocteau
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I… — Robert Breault
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when… — Manly Hall
It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. — Publilius Syrus
Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing. — Mark Zandi
Friendship either finds or makes equals. — Publilius Syrus
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. — Havelock Ellis
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every generation finds the drug it needs. — P.J. O'Rourke
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw. — Euripides
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. — Etty Hillesum
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying… — Garrett Hardin
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that… — Calvin Trillin
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt

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