#often

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ↗

— Stendhal

#often #pleasure #spoiled

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#doing #formulas #found #group #i

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#away #believe #commit #corners #daughters

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#enemy #far #friend #happiness #just

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#character #ends #happens #oftentimes #other

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#before #best #consistently #find #job

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. ↗

— George Grey

#almost #appear #bathe #directly #ever

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#commands #contradiction #fully #god #great