Quotes with one-verse

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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Source: Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Cohen The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Pablo Casals The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
    Billy Preston
     
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Matthew Arnold The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Source: Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Martin Luther King The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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