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Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 6747.

  • Marquis de Sade Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • William Wordsworth Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Harry S. Truman Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand… on the other.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • John Milton Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Anna Lindh Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
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  • Luis Bunuel God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Franklin God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Lynn God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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