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“I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.”

Suffering Found Offers Thousand Equal Strive Superiors Inferiors Quarrels Doubtful

Author:Joseph Hall

“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Men Way Years Wells Stills Three Lost Century Thousand Hundred Reverence Boston Crooked Precedent Calves

Book:Whiffs from Wild Meadows

Source: Whiffs from Wild Meadows

“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”

Made Two Different Light Three Speak Cases Theory Thousand Prove Discovery Connections Experiments Electric Exaggeration Electric Light

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.”

Past Poetry Thousand

Book:The Enigma of Stonehenge

Source: The Enigma of Stonehenge

“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!”

Mind Art Eye Running Joy Voice Race Morning Cry Thousand Spring Busy Waking Rays Rome Excess Thrilling These Eyes

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.”

Way Religious Alive Military Thousand Advantage Contrary Best Way Analogies

Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.”

Thousand Brilliant Hills Silver Decline Flood Gems Shady Thames Thickets

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.”

Knows Way Mean Doe Different Jesus Simple Christianity Possibility Thousand Ideals Surrender Obedience Different Ways Sermons Really Mean Obeying Interpreting Sermon On The Mount

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.”

Way Believe Problem I Believe Interesting Thousand Solutions One Way Permanent Formal

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”

Way Firsts Use Body Steps Journey Feet Thousand Travel Miles Lifts Description First Steps Scenery Thousand Miles Where You Stand Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Book:Blossoms of Friendship

Source: Blossoms of Friendship

“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.”

Want Writing Reading Bits Missing Thousand Prose Modest Good Writing Good Reading

Book:Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

Source: Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

“From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”

Progress Thousand Spring Harmonious Brooks

Book:The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

Firsts Dying Months Thousand Six Goodbye Death And Dying Six Months Bereavement After Death

Author:Allan Gregg

“Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.”

May Self Names Energy Given Causes Divine Thousand Oneness Primaries

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.”

Doe Feelings Certain Speak Blood Thousand Pure Red Relation Wine Glasses Concrete Rooted Hunters Caps

Author:Robert Motherwell

“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Ends Realizing Thousand Ten Decided

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.”

World Reality Thousand Who You Are Wave Passing Passings

Author:Guy Finley

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”

Looks Spirit Speak Beauty Particular Taste Thousand Constitution Adapted

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”

Giving Eye Felt Causes Subjects Color Masters Birth Thousand Enchanted Giving Birth

Author:Washington Allston

“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”

Years May Tomorrow Thousand Yesterday Thousand Years

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”

Way Writing Mind Mean Soul Body Force Wish Magic Thousand Draws Letters Distance Silent Division Absent Pow Absent Friends

Author:Aaron Hill

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.”

Might Given Secret Existence Thousand Sticks Instant Sand Flash Odds Lightning Peril Motor Against All Odds Diagrams Against The Odds

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”

Knows Artist Greater Ought Thousand Painful Painful Death

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.”

Ifs Leadership Leader Thousand Twenties Crowds March Pace

Author:Georg Brandes

“The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.”

Ifs Way Universe Walks Path Thousand Barriers Gates

Author:Wumen Huikai

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Ifs Mind Dies Language Pieces Thousand Torture Nightmare Nerves Orchestra Corpses Symbolic

Author:Asger Jorn

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.”

Ifs Littles Bits Land Danger Fine Thousand Ocean Little Bit Beats Storm Miles Handle Boat Upset Hitting Sailing Thousand Miles

Author:John Moffitt

“Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?”

Knows Light Artist Know How Failing Thousand Shining Concentration Beam

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.”

Men War Months Thousand Thirty

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”

Men Dream Next Steps Worry Thousand Next Steps

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.”

Jesus Thousand Hundred Blessed Sacraments Blessed Sacrament

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.”

Love Giving Fire Blood Return Thousand Kissing Give Me Amor

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.”

Ifs Men States Political Dies Politics Power Thousand Fifty

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.”

Men Should Problem Hands Able Understanding Struggle Involved Thousand Members Average Eight Practicals Factors Membership Fraternity Alphas

Author:Jewel

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.”

Made Hands Light Seems Beautiful Water Company Feet Sky Rocks Flower Wall Fine Thousand Awful Compare Temples Flood Majesty Brows Meadows Reassuring Grove Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.”

Enemy Thousand Reflection Pace

Author:St. Jerome

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

People Ifs Should Years Enough Kids School Jobs Company Five Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Be Good Thirty Forty Good Enough

Author:Steve Jobs

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