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- True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.…
- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If…
- The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which…
- It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing…
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
- A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
- The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is…
- Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
- The true object of human life is play.
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
- A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
- My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
- Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood