m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "god" ]
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "marriage" ]
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "men", "power" ]
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best", "dreams", "hope", "time" ]
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "great", "truth" ]
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "government" ]
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "god", "work" ]
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "men" ]
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "art" ]
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "life", "mothersday" ]
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "good", "religion" ]
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?	Abraham Lincoln	[ "friendship" ]
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "god", "great" ]
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "business", "good" ]
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "business" ]
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "government" ]
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "great", "men" ]
Whatever you are, be a good one.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "good" ]
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "work" ]
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "war" ]
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "success" ]
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "time" ]
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "great", "success" ]
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "peace" ]
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "faith" ]
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'	Abraham Lincoln	[ "time", "truth" ]
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "men" ]
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "time" ]
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "life" ]
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best", "time" ]
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "government" ]
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "time" ]
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "good" ]
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "history" ]
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "government" ]
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "good", "government" ]
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "respect" ]
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "men" ]
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "pet" ]
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best", "freedom", "hope" ]
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "equality", "men", "power" ]
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "government", "hope", "power" ]
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.	Abraham Maslow	[ "truth" ]
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.	Abraham Maslow	[ "health" ]
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.	Abraham Maslow	[ "change" ]
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.	Abraham Maslow	[ "good" ]
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.	Abraham Maslow	[ "failure" ]
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.	Abraham Maslow	[ "communication" ]
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.	Abraham Maslow	[ "men", "women" ]
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.	Abraham Maslow	[ "music", "peace" ]
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.	Abraham Maslow	[ "life" ]
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.	Abraham Maslow	[ "fear" ]
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.	Abraham Maslow	[ "wisdom" ]
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.	Abraham Pais	[ "morning" ]
Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.	Abraham Zapruder	[ "car" ]
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.	Abraham Zapruder	[ "car" ]
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.	Abu Bakr	[ "truth" ]
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.	Abu Bakr	[ "knowledge" ]
God helps those who fear Him.	Abu Bakr	[ "fear" ]
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.	Abu Bakr	[ "fear", "knowledge" ]
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.	Abu Bakr	[ "society" ]
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.	Abu Bakr	[ "death", "patience" ]
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.	Abu Bakr	[ "death" ]
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.	Abu Bakr	[ "faith", "fear", "god" ]
Knowledge is the life of the mind.	Abu Bakr	[ "knowledge" ]
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.	Abu Bakr	[ "faith" ]
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.	Abu Bakr	[ "god" ]
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.	Abu Bakr	[ "fear" ]
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.	Abu Bakr	[ "work" ]
Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.	Abu Bakr	[ "anger" ]
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.	Abu Bakr	[ "death" ]
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.	Abu Bakr	[ "god" ]
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.	Abu Bakr	[ "knowledge" ]
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.	Abu Bakr	[ "god" ]
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.	Abu Bakr	[ "education" ]
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.	Abu Bakr	[ "death" ]
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.	Abu Bakr	[ "happiness" ]
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.	Abu Bakr	[ "morning" ]
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.	Ad Reinhardt	[ "art" ]
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.	Ada Louise Huxtable	[ "imagination" ]
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.	Adam Clarke	[ "death" ]
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.	Adam Clarke	[ "wisdom" ]
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.	Adam Clarke	[ "faith" ]
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.	Adam Clarke	[ "happiness" ]
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.	Adam Clymer	[ "morning" ]
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.	Adam Clymer	[ "humor" ]
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.	Adam Ferguson	[ "design" ]
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.	Adam Osborne	[ "computers" ]
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.	Adam Osborne	[ "computers" ]
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.	Adam Osborne	[ "computers" ]
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.	Adam Osborne	[ "car" ]
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.	Adam Sedgwick	[ "anger" ]
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.	Adam Smith	[ "nature" ]

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "god" ]

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "marriage" ]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "men", "power" ]

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best", "dreams", "hope", "time" ]

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "great", "truth" ]

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "government" ]

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "god", "work" ]

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "men" ]

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "art" ]

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "life", "mothersday" ]

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "good", "religion" ]

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

[ "friendship" ]

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "god", "great" ]

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "business", "good" ]

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "business" ]

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "government" ]

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "great", "men" ]

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "good" ]

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "work" ]

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "war" ]

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "success" ]

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "time" ]

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "great", "success" ]

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "peace" ]

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "faith" ]

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

[ "time", "truth" ]

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "men" ]

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "time" ]

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "life" ]

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best", "time" ]

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "government" ]

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "time" ]

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "good" ]

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "history" ]

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "government" ]

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "good", "government" ]

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best" ]

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "respect" ]

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "men" ]

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "pet" ]

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "best", "freedom", "hope" ]

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "equality", "men", "power" ]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

[ "government", "hope", "power" ]

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Abraham Maslow

[ "truth" ]

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Abraham Maslow

[ "health" ]

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Abraham Maslow

[ "change" ]

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

[ "good" ]

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Abraham Maslow

[ "failure" ]

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

[ "communication" ]

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

[ "men", "women" ]

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

[ "music", "peace" ]

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Abraham Maslow

[ "life" ]

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

[ "fear" ]

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

[ "wisdom" ]

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Abraham Pais

[ "morning" ]

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

Abraham Zapruder

[ "car" ]

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Abraham Zapruder

[ "car" ]

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

[ "truth" ]

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr

[ "knowledge" ]

God helps those who fear Him.

Abu Bakr

[ "fear" ]

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Abu Bakr

[ "fear", "knowledge" ]

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

[ "society" ]

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

[ "death", "patience" ]

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Abu Bakr

[ "death" ]

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abu Bakr

[ "faith", "fear", "god" ]

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

[ "knowledge" ]

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Abu Bakr

[ "faith" ]

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

Abu Bakr

[ "god" ]

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

Abu Bakr

[ "fear" ]

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Abu Bakr

[ "work" ]

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Abu Bakr

[ "anger" ]

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Abu Bakr

[ "death" ]

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Abu Bakr

[ "god" ]

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Abu Bakr

[ "knowledge" ]

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Abu Bakr

[ "god" ]

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr

[ "education" ]

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Abu Bakr

[ "death" ]

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Abu Bakr

[ "happiness" ]

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Abu Bakr

[ "morning" ]

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt

[ "art" ]

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

[ "imagination" ]

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Adam Clarke

[ "death" ]

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

[ "wisdom" ]

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

[ "faith" ]

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

Adam Clarke

[ "happiness" ]

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

[ "morning" ]

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Adam Clymer

[ "humor" ]

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson

[ "design" ]

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Osborne

[ "computers" ]

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

[ "computers" ]

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Adam Osborne

[ "computers" ]

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Adam Osborne

[ "car" ]

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

[ "anger" ]

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

[ "nature" ]