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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.


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HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.
HANNAH MORE Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of a people...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help t...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
HANNAH MORE Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their s...
HANNAH MORE He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Sinc...
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
HANNAH MORE He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation i...
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
HANNAH MORE Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
HANNAH MORE The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...
THOMAS MORE One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...
THOMAS MORE Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...
THOMAS MORE I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
THOMAS MORE I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r...
KENNETH MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
THOMAS MORE Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
HENRY MORE Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's ...
THOMAS MORE [how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ...
THOMAS MORE And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think ther...
THOMAS MORE There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every t...
THOMAS MORE Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the b...
THOMAS MORE Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill tha...
THOMAS MORE On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s...
THOMAS MORE In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invad...
KENNETH MORE In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener.
KIRAN MORE A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORE If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
THOMAS MORE He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MORE First Thought is one of the gem of garland of Success... Don't lose it.... Whenever a thought strike...
RAJESH MORE The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated
THOMAS MORE Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise
THOMAS MORE She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But cold...
THOMAS MORE Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
THOMAS MORE Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MORE Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and de...
THOMAS MORE A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
THOMAS MORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
THOMAS MORE If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot...
THOMAS MORE The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance
THOMAS MORE The devil - the prowde spirit - cannot endure to be mocked
THOMAS MORE The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid...
THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.
THOMAS MORE Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all d...
THOMAS MORE By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, natu...
THOMAS MORE This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason o...
THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell...
THOMAS MORE I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORE Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MORE Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians a...
THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina...
THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MORE The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing
THOMAS MORE Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still
THOMAS MORE To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have b...
THOMAS MORE Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound
THOMAS MORE Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become...
THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without ...
THOMAS MORE The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...
THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w...
THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power
THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MORE Your eight is someone's infinity.
NITYA MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...
THOMAS MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
THOMAS MORE Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide every...
THOMAS MORE For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet ca...
THOMAS MORE "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour...
THOMAS MORE They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to...
THOMAS MORE This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda,
THOMAS MORE I was really happy with the way the kids played tonight, ... We executed our doubles strategy perfec...
THOMAS MORE Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
THOMAS MORE Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?
THOMAS MORE You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round i...
THOMAS MORE Bill Dotson holds a special place in my life,
THOMAS MORE Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws...
THOMAS MORE A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
THOMAS MORE The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's wall...
THOMAS MORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
THOMAS MORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MORE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream
THOMAS MORE Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to m...
THOMAS MORE The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
THOMAS MORE If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...
THOMAS MORE He certainly cut a swatch. He never drove anything but a fabulous convertible.
GARY MORE He was going to work on bridges in college and he decided that he really loved to draw and he got ve...
GARY MORE We never thought it was a curse of Shaquille O'Neal. It's hard to get to Austin, people don't realiz...
HERB MORE There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can...
KIRAN MORE He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well.
KIRAN MORE He has done very well in domestic cricket and his experience will be crucial in Pakistan.
KIRAN MORE He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is...
KIRAN MORE He has gone to Australia for treatment.
KIRAN MORE Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decid...
KIRAN MORE He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor.
KIRAN MORE Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot.
KIRAN MORE We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it.
KIRAN MORE Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, nev...
PAUL ELMER MORE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, ...
PAUL ELMER MORE They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 We are born knowing nothing and with much stri...
PAUL ELMER MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are b...
PAUL ELMER MORE Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying ...
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BARRY HANNAH I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That...
BARRY HANNAH Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ...
BARRY HANNAH Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw...
BARRY HANNAH I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a...
HANNAH STORM Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
HANOI HANNAH I had to do something for the country.
HANOI HANNAH And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
HANOI HANNAH We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
HANOI HANNAH Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast...
HANOI HANNAH It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr...
HANOI HANNAH Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
HANOI HANNAH I would like to see America some day.
HANOI HANNAH Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstru...
HANOI HANNAH