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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sholem Asch Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Confucius Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Dryden Not to ask is not be denied.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • Alexander Pope Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Jean Nathan Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
    Source: The World in Falseface
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Milton Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ben Jonson Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
    Is virtue, and not fate:
    Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
    And her black spite expel.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Antisthenes Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Homer Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bill Clinton Not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people.
    Source: Late Show with David Letterman, June 16, 2005
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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