Quotes with not-so-great

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• Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

  ― Jim Rohn
  American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

  ― Molière
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

  ― Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  ― Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

  ― Alexander Herzen
  Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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• You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

  ― Jerry Garcia
  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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• You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

  ― Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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• You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  ― Walt Disney
  American producer (1901 - 1966)
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• You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

  ― Robert Anthony
  American psychologist and self-help writer
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• You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

  ― James Allen
  British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

  ― Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  ― Marilyn Ferguson
  American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  ― Leo Tolstoy
  Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v

  ― Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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• ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''

  ― W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• anglo-american
• transmission
• bibliography
• experienced
• impoverish
• aspiration

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