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But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

– Barbara HallRate it:

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

– George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8Rate it:

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

– Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994Rate it:

But respect yourself most of all.

– Golden verses of the PythagoreansRate it:

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

– Mary BertoneRate it:

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

– Walter ScottRate it:

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

– Rupert BrookeRate it:

But such an affection for what doesn't fit and won't comport, reality out of place...

– Clifford GeertzRate it:

But the animal has no veil. Dogs better treated than Afghan women. (Même l'animal n'a de voile. Chien mieux traité que l'afghane ?)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

– E. M. ForsterRate it:

But the dog who is rabid is not by bowl attracted. (Mais le chien qui est enragé n'est par gamelle attiré)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

– Carl SaganRate it:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.

– The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible- Galations 5:22-23 NIVRate it:

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

– Herbert ButterfieldRate it:

But the idea that Stoics don’t have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe “proto-emotions” that we feel and can’t control, and even a sage isn’t impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.

– Nancy ShermanRate it:

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

– Thomas BrowneRate it:

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

– Martha NussbaumRate it:

But the little girl growing up still hisses a tune, that of the cottage train. (Mais la petite fille qui grandit siffle toujours un air, celui du train de la chaumière)”

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

– Arthur C. ClarkeRate it:

But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women

– Marya MannesRate it:

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

– George OrwellRate it:

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

– Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)Rate it:

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

– D. H. LawrenceRate it:

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