Therefore Quotes
4218 Therefore quotes by 2275 unique authors
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Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take…
— William Cowper
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore,…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile…
— John Milton
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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or…
— John Milton
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
— Mary Oliver
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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed…
— Thomas Paine
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If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
— Heinrich Heine
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The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
— Lucretius
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Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer…
— Henri Matisse
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I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures…
— Georges Braque
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And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot…
— Terry Pratchett
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no…
— Tom Robbins
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The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
— Charles Darwin
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The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more…
— Thomas Sowell
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly…
— Ansel Adams
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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it…
— Eli Siegel
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Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even…
— Vinton Cerf
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Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not…
— Sun Tzu
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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the…
— David Hockney
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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the…
— Alan Watts
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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,…
— Herbert Spencer
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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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