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68 quotesBeware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Danger
Aesop
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Animals
Aristotle
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Influence
Henry Ward Beecher
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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Nature
Bernoulli
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Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.
Neighbors
Bible
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Wish and Wishing
Phillips Brooks
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
Curiosity
Robert Browning
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The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Explanations
Professor William Buechner
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Curiosity
Edmund Burke
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Principles
Albert Camus
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The most complex things are the simplest.
Simplicity
Agni Celeste
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Justice
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
Memory
Chinese Proverb
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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
Shame
Marcus T. Cicero
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Ambition
Marcus T. Cicero
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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
Mind
Marcus T. Cicero
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Profanity
William Cowper
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Understanding
Leonardo Da Vinci
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God always takes the simplest way.
Simplicity
Albert Einstein
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Disease
Thomas Fuller
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun