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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. — Samuel Johnson
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you… — Jack Handey
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies… — Betty Williams
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering… — Walter Russell
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the… — Ayn Rand
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… — James Madison
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the… — James Dyson
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of… — Francois Magendie
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into… — Benjamin Franklin
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion

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