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This many-headed monster, Multitude. -- Samuel Daniel
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. -- Charles Baudelaire
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. -- John Lawson
Riches cover a multitude of woes. -- Menander
Charity creates a multitude of sins. -- Oscar Wilde
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. -- Mark Twain
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. -- Mae West
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. -- Ben Jonson
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. -- Saul Bellow
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.' -- Haile Selassie
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. -- Richard Owen
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. -- John Dos Passos
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. -- James E. Faust
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. -- Immanuel Kant
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -- Audrey Hepburn
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. -- King George V
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. -- Andrew Jackson
Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training. -- Dwayne Johnson
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. -- William Wordsworth
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. -- Dee Dee Myers
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. -- William Ellery Channing
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. -- Martin Van Buren
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. -- Matthew Modine
Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true. -- Gary Zukav
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation. -- Johnny Weir
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation. -- Diablo Cody
The multitude is always wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Make-up covers a multitude of sins. -- Stephen King
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins. -- Carolyn Wells
Success covers a multitude of blunders. -- George Bernard Shaw
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. -- George Herbert
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness -- Charles Baudelaire
A multitude of books distracts the mind. -- Socrates
Trees cover up a multitude of sins. -- Bob Ross
A multitude of people and yet solitude. -- Charles Dickens
The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Paulo Freire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -- Voltaire
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. -- Virgil
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. -- Aldous Huxley
Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily. -- Dwight L. Moody
One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. -- Anthony Liccione
A soft landing covers a multitude of sins. -- Katherine Starbird
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? -- David Mitchell
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. -- Frederick Douglass
The multitude of people fail because they talk failure. -- T. B. Joshua
The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins. -- Humphry Davy
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered. -- Laozi
I will build a car for the great multitude. -- Henry Ford
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. -- Publilius Syrus
A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. -- Anthony Bourdain
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. -- Blaise Pascal
Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons. -- Johnny Depp
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. -- William Hazlitt
Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. -- Bob Dylan
Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws. -- Melissa de la Cruz
In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives. -- Norman Lear
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. -- Baltasar Gracian
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. -- Thales
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy. -- Chrysippus
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. -- Joseph Joubert
Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. -- George Alexiou
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. -- Sun Tzu
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. -- Catherine Doherty
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. -- Diogenes Laertius
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. -- Taliesin
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. -- Herman Melville
We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe. -- Carl Sagan
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity. -- John Calvin
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... -- William Butler Yeats
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. -- Victor Hugo
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. -- Oswald Spengler
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. -- Hugh Kingsmill
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. -- William Benton Clulow
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. -- George Washington
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. -- Sir Fulke Greville
A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor -- Seneca
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. -- Voltaire
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. -- Ovid
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. -- Li-Young Lee
The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins. -- Brent Weeks
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. -- Jeremy Collier
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. -- Denis Diderot
The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us -- James E. Faust
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. -- Arthur Koestler
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. -- David Hume
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. -- James Russell Lowell
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. -- Thomas Sowell
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. -- Carl Sagan
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. -- Rollo May
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it. -- Adam Smith
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. -- Herodotus
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself. -- Publilius Syrus
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. -- John Henry Jowett
I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.] -- Ovid
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. -- Peter Diamandis
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. -- George Herbert
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. -- Harry Browne
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. -- Leo Tolstoy
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. -- Martin Luther
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. -- Edmund Burke
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. -- Garry Kasparov
The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.] -- Tacitus

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