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  • Agnes Repplier The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Shankly The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Mark Twain The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Bill Veeck The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • Matthew Arnold The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • John Lyly The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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