Quotes with petty--never

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  • Abraham Lincoln The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Lord George Byron The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Buddha The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joyce Cary The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Charles Kingsley The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Albert Camus The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carmen Sylva The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.
    Carmen Sylva
    Ps. van Elisabeth zu Wied, Queen of Romania (1843 - 1916)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
    Source: Gettysburg Address, 19-11-1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The years teach us much the days never knew.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Saki The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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