Quotes 261 till 280 of 701.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Lacon I, 183 -
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
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It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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