Pursues Quotes
86 quotes by 79 authors
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
— John Bolton
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on…
— John Owen
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given…
— Leeman Bennett
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With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of…
— Anthony Storr
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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
— Juvenal
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure…
— Maxim Gorky
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the…
— Stefan Zweig
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to…
— Robert South
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He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a…
— William Melmoth
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Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.
— Paulo Coelho
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The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
— Elfriede Jelinek
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