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«No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.»
«Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.»
Author: Pythagoras | Keywords: rests, sobriety, unclouded
«Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.»
«That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.»
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.»
«One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.»
«Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens.»
«Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.»
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»

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