Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Belief Quotes

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

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The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Mind Quotes , Would Be Quotes

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

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A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , People Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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