Unmixed Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we…
— Hannah Arendt
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love,…
— Boris Pasternak
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
— Horatio Alger
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as…
— J I Packer
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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to…
— James Russell Lowell
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Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we…
— William Butler Yeats
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The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
— Lord Acton
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge,…
— Asa Gray
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
— Richard Steele
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
— David Hume
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Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"…
— Lloyd Alexander
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The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.…
— J D Salinger
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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young…
— Charles Dickens
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
— Simone Weil
Who Wrote These Unmixed Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Unmixed Quotes as follows: