"By having much, you are fitted to have…" — James Stephens
"By having much, you are fitted to have more."
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38 Quotes by James Stephens
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think…
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
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It is by love alone that we understand anything
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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
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A secret is a weapon and a friend.
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To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
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Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure…
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly…
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A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an…
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More Fitted Quotes
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
— Roger Bannister
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts,…
— Wendell Berry
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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it,…
— Edwin Booth
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
— Horatius Bonar
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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its…
— William Cowper
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& I think I like him better with the fitted cap on He aint even gotta try to put the…
— Nicki Minaj
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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that…
— Bernard Baruch
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up…
— Michael Faraday
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ...…
— Jacob Bronowski
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