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- We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
- The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute…
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world,…
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash,…
- Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
- Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with…
- Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot…
- It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and…
- Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
- When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of…
- The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the…
- And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if…
- A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns…
- I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if…
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is…
- I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
More Nor Quotes
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson