Quotes 141 till 160 of 707.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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Every principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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