"In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths……" — Edward Everett Hale
"In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven."
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Edward Everett Hale
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26 Quotes by Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale has 26 quotes on this site.
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Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country…
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You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means…
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does…
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down…
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I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
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For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
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Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry…
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[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n…
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[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But…
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War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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