"I became an ardent, but never a specially…" — Georg Brandes
"I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer."
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38 Quotes by Georg Brandes
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my…
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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School is a foretaste of life.
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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life…
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been…
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More Ardent Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
— Robert Benchley
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
— David Brainerd
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
— Edmund Burke
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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