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3818 English Quotes

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Benevolent Misery Friend Happy
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Understand Men Good Hate
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Wish Women Power Men
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Life Obstinate Clings Hated
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Elegance Inferior Virtue
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But knowledge isn't meant to be held as a weapon in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.

Knowledge Weapon Life Death
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Virtue Flourish Equals
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Political Extreme Productive Evil
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Justice Charity Wanting World
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Strengthen Female Mind Obedience
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Men Women Educated Society
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Being Virtuous Authority Reason
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable—and life is more than a dream.

Resides Heart Life Dream
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism Literature Hurry
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth Lips Dying Men
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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Part Religion Poetry
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Wandering Worlds Dead Born
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there
Art Truth Refuge
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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Life Getting Being Becoming
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The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Free Thinking Age Common sense
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Sense Creativity Happiness Alive
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How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Minds Great Secrecy Solitude
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry Beautiful Impressive Mode
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Lent Youth Age Discontent
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Greatness Spiritual Condition
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Gifts Faithfully Practice Knowledge
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Life Noble Ideas Life
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture Best Thought World
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Fate Chance Control Soul
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Pursuit Perfection Sweetness Light
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They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Gifts Chance Conquered Fate
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Business Passion Life Steadily
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture Love Perfection Study
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

True Religion Morality Emotion
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Brave Heart Subtle Head
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct Life Concern
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Men Culture Apostles Equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Poetry Idea World Illusion
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Knowledge Wise man Nature
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Culture Intellectual Moral
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Poetry Power Delighting
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Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Truth Joy Pleasure Spirits
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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Religion Voice Human Experience
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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Change Tranquil Strength Men
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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Preserve Peace Church Purity
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After a storm comes a calm.

Storm Calm
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Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.

Christ's Disciples Orators Spirit
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Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

Religion Manners Obliges Honour
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The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.
Fear God Heart Soul
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For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.

Bible Pride Sloth Carelessness
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