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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Architecture
[ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]
1154 votes.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Human Nature
[ Denis Diderot ]
1154 votes.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
Opportunity
[ Greek Proverb ]
1154 votes.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Solitude
[ Walter Savage Landor ]
1154 votes.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
[ Walter Lippmann ]
1154 votes.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Books - Reading
[ Dawn Adams ]
1153 votes.

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
[ Lord Chesterfield ]
1153 votes.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration
[ Benjamin Franklin ]
1153 votes.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
Medicine
[ French Proverb ]
1153 votes.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
Taxes and Taxation
[ Greek Proverb ]
1153 votes.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Civilization
[ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ]
1153 votes.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Family
[ Chinese Proverb ]
1152 votes.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Faith
[ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ]
1152 votes.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Unknown
[ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ]
1152 votes.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Merit
[ Joseph Addison ]
1151 votes.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Belief
[ Lord Chesterfield ]
1151 votes.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Power
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
1151 votes.

Bed is the poor man's opera.
Bed
[ Italian Proverb ]
1151 votes.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Happiness
[ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ]
1151 votes.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
Hell
[ George Bernard Shaw ]
1151 votes.

Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Vocabulary
[ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]
1150 votes.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Tact and Tactfulness
[ Benjamin Franklin ]
1150 votes.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Memory
[ Benjamin Franklin ]
1150 votes.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Faults
[ Jean De La Fontaine ]
1150 votes.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Pessimism
[ George Bernard Shaw ]
1150 votes.

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