Than Quotes
17300 quotes by 8648 authors
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
— Joseph Addison
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be…
— James Van Der Beek
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
— Joseph Addison
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
— Max Beerbohm
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be…
— Berenice Abbott
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a…
— Adele
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I've never been more normal than I am now.
— Adele
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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
— Joshua Bell
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
— Hilaire Belloc
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd…
— Adele
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