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Quotes 641 till 660 of 1099.

  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Don Marquis Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Abraham Cowley Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Wilson Mizner Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • George Steiner Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bridgit Mendler Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • John Dryden Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau Reason over passion.
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  • Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • James Gordon Bennett Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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