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- If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart…
- A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
- There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of…
- [I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time...
- There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
- It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a…
- Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes…
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They…
- One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
- After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence,…
- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in…
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They…
- There is a Sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They…
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- 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