Seen Quotes
7139 Seen quotes by 4463 unique authors
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
— Plutarch
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
— Mark Twain
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.
— Jimmy Dean
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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force…
— Janet Morris
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!
— Bill Walton
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen…
— Alice Meynell
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I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin…
— Kevin Durant
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People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ'…
— Bill Russell
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
— Wilt Chamberlain
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We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.
— Jewel
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
— Eric Hoffer
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