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- If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will…
- Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,…
- All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying…
- There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak…
- The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
- Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him…
- Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
- Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
- Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be…
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed,…
- A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
- Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
- ...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever…
- Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster