“All the windy ways of men are but dust that rises up, and is lightly laid again.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 26
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“But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
“Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?”
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
“There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.”
“Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call; she comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; the glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; no force can bend me, no persuasion move.”
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, a mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
“So perish all, whose breast ne'er learned to glow for others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
“The management philosophy here really is to give people enough rope to hang themselves.”
“And that is a story that no one can beat, when I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”
“Racial ignorance is a prison from which there is no escape because there’re no doors.”
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinions.”
“I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight.”
“I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war.”
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