Their Course Quotes
43 quotes by 39 authors
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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
— Aeschylus
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to…
— Samuel Adams
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
— Laozi
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them…
— Adrienne von Speyr
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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length…
— Aristotle
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who…
— Franz Grillparzer
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Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?
— John Bunyan
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An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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Stay at the center and let all things take their course.
— Laozi
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
— William Davenant
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That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets…
— Samuel Rogers
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand…
— Laozi
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The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
— Baltasar Gracian
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A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
— Richard Baxter
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It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their…
— Claude Bernard
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Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.…
— Laozi
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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but…
— Victor Hugo
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