Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Essence Quotes

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.

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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

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To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.

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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

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Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

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