Quotes with never-was

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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Lucretius The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Vince Lombardi The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Charles Dickens The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
    Source: Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bill Bennett The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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