Frequently Quotes
821 quotes by 623 authors
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Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain,…
— Bonnie D. Parkin
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Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom…
— Immanuel Kant
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without…
— Thomas A. Edison
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"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution…
— Samuel Smiles
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but…
— Unknown Author
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Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel…
— George Washington
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
— Samuel Johnson
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They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
— Samuel Johnson
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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
— Mark Twain
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There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . .…
— Carl Jung
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be…
— Quentin Crisp
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
— Loren Eiseley
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Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here…
— Achim Steiner
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Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy…
— Ellen G. White
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and…
— Abraham Kuyper
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The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would…
— Martin Luther King III
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In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we…
— James MacDonald
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There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of…
— Sam Keen
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