Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
13 Oct , 2011
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But […]
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13 Oct , 2011
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. Great short quote and quotation by: Sydney Smith , English essayist (1771 – 1845)
anything, danger, doing, scramble, shivering, stand, thinking, through, world, worth
13 Oct , 2011
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Anna Louise Strong ,
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Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
13 Oct , 2011
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Great short quote and quotation by: Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969 ,
13 Oct , 2011
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Great short quote and quotation by: Bernadette Devlin ,
13 Oct , 2011
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. Great short quote and quotation by: Joey Bishop , US actor & comedian (1918 – )
locked, money, paper, register, station, today, toilet, toilets, worth
5 Aug , 2011
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about. Great short quote and quotation by: C. C. Colton ,
about, ascertained, considered, contending, differ, disputing, examine, first, prevent, quarrels, rather, secondly, terms, whether, worth
15 Feb , 2011
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
being, better, chance, creature, decayed, degraded, exertions, feeling, fight, himself, important, miserable, moral, patriotic, person, personal, safety, state, thing, thinks, ugliest, unless, willing, worse, worth
15 Feb , 2011
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
being, better, chance, creature, decayed, degraded, exertions, feeling, fight, himself, important, miserable, moral, patriotic, person, personal, safety, state, thing, thinks, ugliest, unless, willing, worse, worth
15 Feb , 2011
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. Great short quote and quotation by: Hansell B. Duckett ,
15 Feb , 2011
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Great short quote and quotation by: Phillip Stanhope ,
15 Feb , 2011
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Great short quote and quotation by: Phillip Earl Stanhope ,