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  • George Eliot No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Charles Simmons No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • William Hazlitt No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Publilius Syrus No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Antonin Artaud No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Thomas à Kempis No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one should be rich except those who understand it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jean Paul No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Lord Melbourne Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nothing can be done except little by little.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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