Forth Quotes
1734 quotes by 1243 authors
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
— Seneca the Younger
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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
— Thomas Browne
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I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I…
— Channing Tatum
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Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
— Thomas a Kempis
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A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
— Ben Jonson
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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents…
— Walter Savage Landor
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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
— Eudora Welty
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Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
— Margaret Sanger
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A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
— Francois Mauriac
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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes…
— Hafez
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities,…
— Sean O'Casey
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In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a…
— Louis Sullivan
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Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not…
— Stephen Root
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