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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.