Quotes with petty--never

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  • George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe It is never too late to be wise.
    Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
    Source: Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
    Source: About Israel Comment in connection with the annual Europride, i
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • James Mackintosh It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
    James Mackintosh
    British politician (1765 - 1832)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Og Mandino It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Lord George Byron It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Zig Ziglar It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • John Henry Newman It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Anna Wickham It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham
     
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  • Augustus Hare It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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