Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Brother Quotes, Honesty Quotes

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

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Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Brother Quotes , Humor Quotes

I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Brother Quotes , Jealous Quotes

My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Brother Quotes , Years Quotes

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Education Quotes , Brother Quotes

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Brother Quotes , Offering Quotes

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Brother Quotes , Exercise Quotes

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Brother Quotes , Men Quotes

I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Brother Quotes , Brothers And Sisters Quotes

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Brother Quotes , Mind Quotes

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

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My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

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Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Brother Quotes , Disposition Quotes

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Brother Quotes , Men Quotes

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Brother Quotes , Hamlet And Ophelia Quotes

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Life Quotes , Brother Quotes

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Brother Quotes , Men Quotes