Finds Quotes
1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
— Jacques Barzun
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
— James Russell Lowell
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in…
— Malcolm Cowley
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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state…
— Immanuel Kant
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That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are…
— Polybius
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
— Saint Augustine
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
— Bertolt Brecht
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When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
— William James
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his…
— Seneca the Younger
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
— Samuel Johnson
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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His…
— Joseph Heller
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A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
— Wilson Mizner
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
— Andre Gide
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
— Oscar Wilde
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
— Plautus
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Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
— Ellen Terry
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