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| If old Pontifex had had Cromwell's chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better; if he had had Giotto's chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse; as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I wi | | Uncategorized | |
| If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. | | Communication; People; Sorrow; World | |
| If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue | | Uncategorized | |
| If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's. | | Christianity | |
| If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do | | Uncategorized | |
| If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason | | Reason | |
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| In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. | | Uncategorized | |
| Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. | | Life | |
| It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. | | Uncategorized | |
| It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence | | Uncategorized | |
| It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg | | Uncategorized | |
| It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all | | Uncategorized | |
| It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of | | Uncategorized | |
| It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. | | Action; Conscience; Life | |
