“ Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
- 269
“ Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
- 172
“ Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
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“ Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
- 519
“ The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
- 410
“ Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
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“ The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ”
- Brooks Atkinson- Copy
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“ I am thirty-three — the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. ”
- Camille Desmoulins- Copy
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“ Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Today's all the treasure poor mortals can boast,For tomorrow's not gain'd, and yesterday's lost. ”
- William Collins- Copy
- 3.7K
“ O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live. ”
- Maximilien Robespierre- Copy
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“ Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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