Never Yet Quotes
130 quotes by 99 authors
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That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
— James Madison
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully…
— William C. Bryant
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
— Edward Abbey
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
— Edward Abbey
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In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
— Gautama Buddha
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and…
— Herodotus
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
— C.S. Lewis
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My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and…
— Queen Victoria
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as…
— Angelina Grimke
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors,…
— Paul Signac
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion…
— Jane Porter
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Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
— Ellen Glasgow
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own…
— Kate Chopin
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True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few…
— Adi Da
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As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend…
— John Gibson Paton
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I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes…
— M.C. Escher
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I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
— Samuel Johnson
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
— Josh Billings
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[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone…
— George MacDonald
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