Quotes with short-hand

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  • Armstrong Williams In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Miller In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • John Ray Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Charles V Iron hand in a velvet glove.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Learned Hand It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Michelangelo It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sigmund Freud It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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