Never Yet Quotes
130 Never Yet quotes by 99 unique authors
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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
— Dora Russell
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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has…
— Clara Schumann
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Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his…
— Rex Stout
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For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering…
— Mark Twain
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