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• I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Laughter, Heart

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• The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Humanity, Doe, March

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stars, Hard Times, Keys

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Ocean, Atlas

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• There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Two, Soul, Tragedy

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• Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Luxury, Giving, Example

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• A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Delight

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Darkness, Intense

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• Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Joy, Woe

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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• All go free when multitudes offend.

  Lucan

  Freedom

  Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.252

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• It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Learning, Knowledge

  "Lectures on Education".

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• There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Political, Sound

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Government, Voice

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

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• All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Hands, Atheism

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2901, e-artnow

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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Human Nature, Fit

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

  Thomas Bradwardine

  Fighting, Hands, Grace

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.

  Robert Guiscard

  War, Faithful, Overcoming

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• Success covers a multitude of blunders.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sauce, Sin, Kitchen Confidential

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black

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• I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

  Dan Abnett

  Moving, Fighting, People

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• perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Conformity, Individualism

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