Insensible Quotes
53 quotes by 50 authors
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G. Wells
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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
— Jane Austen
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Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the…
— Gregory Maguire
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God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to…
— Jeff Lindsay
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It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic…
— James Ellis
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
— Saadi
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The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to…
— Millicent Fawcett
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Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a…
— Edmund Burke
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Necessarily may it not be said catastrophe the burying of cities into the depths of the Ocean, bursting of the Earth, disasters ordeluge. Are turning…
— Mak_786
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