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- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
- But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give…
- He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
- An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
- Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of…
- The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may…
- If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
- Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man…
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
- Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
- Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big…
- Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things…
- The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies…
- The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The…
- Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
- There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
- This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong