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1736 quotes by 1334 authors

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small… — Helena Rubinstein
To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It… — Prentice Mulford
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers… — Learned Hand
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a… — Alexander Smith
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the… — Eric Hoffer
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new… — Bill Bryson
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour.… — John Ruskin
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. — Frederick William Faber
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed. — Orison Swett Marden
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;… — Samuel Johnson
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting… — Wendy Wasserstein
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former… — Robert E. Lee
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother… — Sylvia Plath
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. — Arthur Bloch
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of… — Horace Greeley

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