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- What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the…
- When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might…
- Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
- Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
- You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you…
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
- There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived…
- There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil…
- For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…
- May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,…
- Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I…
- For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving…
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
- Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!…
- He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
- What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our…
- But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.…
- There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
- The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
- I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider…
- But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be…
- What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at…
- Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour