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- H.E.Thoreau, Unpublished Mss.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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