“ Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.1K
“ To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 240
“ Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ”
- Jean Racine- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Truth...Is a breath, a wind,A shadow, a phantom;Long have I pursued it,But never have I touchedThe hem of its garment. ”
- Stephen Crane- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 98
“ What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1.5K
“ And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 537
“ Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. ”
- Jon Bentley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ "The "haves" and "have nots" can be traced back to the "dids" and "did nots.". ”
- Anthony Klco- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 308
“ The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ”
- Murray Kempton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. ”
- Charles Mackay- Copy
- 2K
“ Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ”
- Paul De Man- Copy
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“ Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 132
“ I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ One-half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 601
“ The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ”
- William Winwood Reade- Copy
- 907
“ There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. ”
- Alan Clark- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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