Sole Quotes
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Blaise Pascal -
But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
William Butler Yeats -
Man is nature's sole mistake.
W. S. Gilbert -
The field is the sole influence of the particle.
Albert Einstein -
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
Charlotte Bronte -
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
William Cowper
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In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.
Adolf Hitler -
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries...
Edgar Allan Poe -
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
William Shakespeare -
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann -
Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
William Kristol
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
George Bernard Shaw -
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Charlotte Bronte -
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.
Edgar Allan Poe -
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe -
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
Robert Frost
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A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
H. W. Brands -
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
Brandon Mull -
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron -
The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
Catherine of Genoa