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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

– Simone de BeauvoirRate it:

It is one of my morning routines to curse hesitation, more than a simple-minded individual spends on cursing the devil.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

– BaileyRate it:

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

– Charles DudleyRate it:

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

– Lewis CarrollRate it:

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

– Janos ArnayRate it:

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

– Henry Ward BeecherRate it:

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

– VoltaireRate it:

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.

– William NevinsRate it:

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

– Charles Dudley WarnerRate it:

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

– Paul GruchowRate it:

It is one thing to wish to have Truth on our side, and another thing to wish sincerely to be on the side of Truth.

– Richard WhatelyRate it:

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

– George EliotRate it:

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

– Daniel J. BoorstinRate it:

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

– Harry FirestoneRate it:

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

– Katharine Butler HathawayRate it:

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

– Eric AndersonRate it:

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.

– Tao Le ChingRate it:

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

– Roland StahlerRate it:

It is only certain that you have to lose what was once found to have it found again.

– Shashank KhubchandaniRate it:

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