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- Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us…
- We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
- Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed…
- Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it…
- Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
- In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in…
- When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and…
- It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
- If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all;…
- The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
- Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth…
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
- My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will produce more results…
- My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
- Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of…
- Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence…
- The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have…
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform…
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle