Quotes 41 till 54 of 54.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar 3, 2 -
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
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To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Where dost thou careless lie,
Buried in ease and sloth?
Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
And this security,
It is the common moth,
That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6. -
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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