Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Norman Douglas He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Henry Fielding He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Richard Hooker He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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  • Francis Quarles He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Herbert He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • William Shakespeare He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare He that sleeps feels not the toothache.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Secker He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that's secure is not safe.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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