Quotes 481 till 500 of 561.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
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To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
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Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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