A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions.
Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
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