T Quotes
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“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.”
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.”
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.”
“The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...
“The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.”
Source: The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons
“The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.”
“The finest fury is the most controlled.”
Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
“The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?”
Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures
“The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.”
“The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.”
“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.”
“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
“The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.”
“The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“The finest mode of transport known to man.”
“The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.”
“The finest natures are like that, their weakness is a blend of tenderness, wonder, the gift of expanding in the sun of art, of love, of the beauty..”
“The finest of all feelings is faith in the Heavenly Father.”
“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness”
“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”
Source: Our National Parks
“The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.”
“The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.”
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's greatest ideas. He will fell inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”
“The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.”
“The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.”
“The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.”
Source: Plays
“The finest pleasure is kindness to others.”
“The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings
“The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.”
“The finest Rogue Justice Warriors have that certain something - an intangible moxie - which sets them apart from the norm.”
“The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.”
“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.”
Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist
“The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.”
“The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”
Source: Pandora
“The finest treasure in life is a mind at peace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.”
“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The finest wits have their sediment.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“The finest woman that ever walked the streets.”
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.”
“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization