Forth Quotes
1734 quotes by 1243 authors
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
— George Eliot
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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....…
— James Russell Lowell
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Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
— Charles Dickens
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked…
— Herman Melville
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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power…
— John Dewey
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at…
— Bill Bryson
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in…
— Joseph Campbell
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