"In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal,……" — Lord Chesterfield
"In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter."
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Lord Chesterfield
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228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they…
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After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the…
— Franz Cumont
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no…
— Aldo Leopold
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I hear God as an audible voice.
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Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present…
— Damon Galgut
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
— Joan Halifax
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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