Abraham ibn Ezra famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra

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Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra

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How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra

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There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra

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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
No one man is superior to the game.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Abraham ibn Ezra famous quotes

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