Quotes with second-greatest

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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Aaron Carter Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Fielding He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Clarence Darrow He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Boeddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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  • Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Winston Churchill Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • David Hume Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,
    the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Mark Twain Humor is the greatest blessing of mankind.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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