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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

– Klemens Von MetternichRate it:

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

– Georg BrandesRate it:

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

– Author UnknownRate it:

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

– Psalm 1272 BibleRate it:

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

– Dejan StojanovicRate it:

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

– Charlotte BrontëRate it:

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

– Thomas à KempisRate it:

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

– Thomas WolfeRate it:

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

– Anne TylerRate it:

It is very difficult to tickle a hungry person.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-RelianceRate it:

It is very easy to conquer a fort of mud than a fort of lead if traitors are present there.

– Bahram BalochRate it:

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes -- it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

– Jessamyn WestRate it:

It is very hard for the mind to disengage itself from a subject on which it has been long employed. The thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time, though we have given them no encouragement, as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue several hours after the winds are laid.

– AddisonRate it:

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

It is very Hard to let go of things you never had...........But always wanted

– Siddharth AstirRate it:

It is very hard, to stay broad-minded, keeping your culture, religion and moral values; it doesn't mean you expect others, but you don't act yourself on this concept

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

It is very important to be sober when you take an exam

– Terry PratchettRate it:

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about.

– Barbara FriedmanRate it:

It is very painful being so abnormal in a world where everyone is so normal, and it is so very painful being so normal when you live in a world where everyone is so abnormal.

– Ryan PackRate it:

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

– Theodore ParkerRate it:

It is very sad we don't see each other, but God will arrange for us to meet, and what joy it will be then.

– Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of RussiaRate it:

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

– Elizabeth TaylorRate it:

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