Finer Quotes
217 quotes by 183 authors
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
— Nancy Astor
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of…
— Annie Besant
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us…
— Willa Cather
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
— Mark Twain
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
— Tom Robbins
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the…
— Edward George, Baron George
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before…
— Hermann Buhl
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
— Winston Churchill
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
— Oscar Wilde
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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
— Mark Twain
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
— William Shakespeare
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
— Charles Dickens
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Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting…
— Arthur Helps
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I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able…
— Kiana Tom
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other…
— Nikola Tesla
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