Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 4652.
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
The Works of Benjamin Disraeli -
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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If a man has done his best, what else is there?
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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