Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 2185.

  • Russell H. Conwell Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Daniel Webster Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Life in abundance comes only through great love.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Rose Macaulay Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Danny Kaye Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
    Danny Kaye
    American actor, singer and comedian (1911 - 1987)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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