"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth,……" — Joseph Conrad
"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires."
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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More Commonwealth Quotes
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
— Jim Bunning
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Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and…
— Augustus
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please…
— John Selden
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand…
— Winston Churchill
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Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in…
— George Washington
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All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the…
— Unknown Author
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I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right…
— Thomas Jefferson
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