Increase Quotes
1848 quotes by 1365 authors
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He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give…
— George MacDonald
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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to…
— Jane Austen
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People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the…
— François Lelord
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and…
— Benjamin Carson
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental…
— C.S. Lewis
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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting…
— Virginia Woolf
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
— John Eldredge
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If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural…
— Leslie Ludy
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Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the…
— P.D. James
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One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
— Bertrand Russell
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
— Italo Calvino
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Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.
— Stephen King
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
— C.S. Lewis
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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or…
— Jane Austen
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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your…
— Dean Koontz
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