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knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
pay attention share
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes? Alan Green
pay attention objects
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. Aiden Wilson Tozer
pay ifs
I would pay to do what I do if I had to. David McCullough
pay debt turns
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. David Graeber
payroll-tax taxes payroll
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax. David Dewhurst
payroll-tax taxes payroll
Ive never supported a payroll tax. David Dewhurst
pay attention use
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. Byron Katie
pay attention pay-attention
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me. Buddy Guy
pay matter taught
Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off. Carlos Slim
despise plenty
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. Cesare Pavese
despised involved people provincial stayed
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. Edmund White
despised good half lives longer nearly people
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed. Kathleen Troia McFarland
despise gateway happened maybe opens
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Helen Oyeyemi
despise men naturally respect
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides
despise things-to-do courses
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do. Agatha Christie
despised hate learned until
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
despise thyself
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise Edward Young
despise leading opportunity
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. Charles Spurgeon