Quotes 121 till 140 of 701.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Could it be worth thy wondrous waste of pains I to publish to the world thy lack of brains?
The Rosciad (1761)
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