Quotes with ring-and-thimble

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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francis Bacon To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Winston Churchill To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Anthony Robbins To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bryson To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Erica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Archibald Macleish To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Jim Rohn To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Thomas Gray Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Winston Churchill True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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