Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Samuel Johnson He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Tryon Edwards He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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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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