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| The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. |
| by Denis Diderot |
| Every step of life shows much caution is required. |
| by Johann Von Goethe |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. |
| by Horace |
| Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. |
| by Lyndon B. Johnson |
| I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. |
| by Orson Welles |
| To finish the moment, to find the journeys end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Cunning leads to knavery. - It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. - Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. |
| by Jean La Bruyere |
| Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. |
| by William Cowper |
| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. |
| by William Cowper |
| History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained. |
| by Charles Darwin |
| Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust. |
| by Charles Dickens |
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