Quotes with not-so-great

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  • William Wordsworth That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Francis Quarles The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Roy L. Smith The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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