Quotes 141 till 160 of 263.
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith) -
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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People are born fools and damned for not being wiser.
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
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Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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