Quotes with petty--never

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  • Hubert Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Oscar Wilde The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Napoleon Hill The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Vince Lombardi The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Anita Brookner The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Hybels The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Dale Carnegie The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Theodor Reik The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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