Quotations Page 'E'

I doubt the equivocation of a friend that lies like truth.

- Tolstoy, My Religion -

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To err is human, To persist in error is devilish.

- S.Augustine, Sermon -

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All true love is founded on esteem.

- Buckingham -

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,But an eternal now does always last.

- Cowley, Garened -

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Evil and good are God's right and left.

- Bailey -

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Where etiquette prevents me from doing things disagreeable to myself, I am a perfect martinet.

- Sydney Smith, Letter to Lady Holland -

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The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night.

- Longfellow, Day is done -

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

- Abraham Lincoln -

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Coming events cast their shadows before.

- Campbell -

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These most brisk and giddy-paced time.

- Shakespeare -

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong : as when you find a trout in the milk.

- H.E.Thoreau, Unpublished Mss. -

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The ear is less trustworthy witness than the eye.

- Herodotus -

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The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -

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It is a great evil not to be able to bear an evil.

- Bion -

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Evil by itself has no legs to stand upon.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan -

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Evil to him who evil thinks.

- Motto of The Order of the Garter -

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The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr.Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

- Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology -

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Evolution is not the force but a process, not a cause but a law.

- Lord morley, Compromise -

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Nothing is so infectious as example.

- Charles Kingsley -

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Example is lesson that all men can read.

- Gilbert West -

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