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  • William Ellery Channing It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Lucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Francois Regnard It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
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  • Confucius It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Huntington It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
    The Clash of Civilizations? (1993)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • H. Manning It is no sign of intellectual greatness to hold other men cheaply. A great intellect takes for granted that other men are more or less like itself.
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Camille Paglia It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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