Quotes with consists

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  Jean Cocteau
  French writer (1889 - 1963)
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• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  Maxims for Revolutionists

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  Saturday Review 15 April 1978

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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• Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

  Herbert Hoover
  American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

  Alphonse Karr
  French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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• The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

  Claude Bernard
  French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• contemplating
• supernatural
• anticipation
• consequences
• insolubility
• experimenter

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