Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Plato He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Penn He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • John Milton He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Joseph Conrad He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Emily Brontë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Ben Carson Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Lord Kelvin Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
    Lord Kelvin
    British physicist (born William Thomson) (1824 - 1907)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Aristotle Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William Feather Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Nelson Boswell Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • Andrew Carnegie Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service better men than himself.
    Tekst voor zijn eigen grafsteen.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Andrew Carnegie Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Abraham Cowley Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Cass Sunstein Here's a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees - far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beth Ditto High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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