“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence… ”
- Dugald Stewart- Copy
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“ Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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