Quotes with old-world

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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few people know how to be old.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Adolf Hitler Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • A. A. Milne I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • W. Clement Stone I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Avi Arad I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Sam Houston I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
    Sam Houston
     
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Source: Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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