Best Greater Part Sayings
100 Greater Part quotes by 72 unique authors
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
— Doris Lessing
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and…
— Bertrand Russell
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle…
— Friedrich Schiller
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
— Adam Smith
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
— Adam Smith
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise…
— Adam Smith
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our…
— Martha Washington
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I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly…
— Orson Welles
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
— Eckhart Tolle
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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which…
— Leonard Cohen
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She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do…
— Clarice Lispector
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...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.
— Rachel Vincent
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black…
— Neil Gaiman
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None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
— Marcel Proust
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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.
— Angela Carter
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
— Samuel Butler
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the…
— Henry Miller
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For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find…
— Michael Morpurgo
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
— Alan Watts
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