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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
— Thomas a Kempis
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and…
— Angus Wilson
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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;…
— Frederic Chopin
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Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
— Les Wexner
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The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree.…
— James McBride
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The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
— Harold Laski
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
— William Shakespeare
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The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
— Francois Mauriac
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The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I…
— Nelson Algren
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