Long Quotes
22418 quotes by 10256 authors
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
— Zhuangzi
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very…
— Josemaria Escriva
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
— Albert Einstein
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
— Seneca the Younger
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
— John Donne
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall…
— William Jacob Holland
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Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little…
— Jack H. Goaslind
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As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together…
— Adolf Hitler
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Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of…
— Adolf Hitler
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but…
— Pope Innocent III
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We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic…
— Pope Leo XIII
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As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day…
— Tara Brach
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us…
— Jack Kornfield
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