13 quotes by Thomas H. Huxley

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Love

3.8 · 32 votes · 114 reads

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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Respect

5.0 · 40 votes

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Proverbs

3.9 · 63 votes

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If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

Candor

5.0 · 38 votes

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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Management

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Various
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
4.9 · 61 votes · 90 reads
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Various
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
3.0 · 32 votes · 104 reads
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Virtues
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
4.3 · 12 votes · 88 reads
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Defects
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life be
4.3 · 39 votes · 113 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
4.0 · 46 votes · 158 reads
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Thought and Reason
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
4.8 · 21 votes · 3 reads
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Society
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
3.7 · 61 votes · 88 reads
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Time
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
3.8 · 25 votes · 47 reads
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