Quotes with short-hand

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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Buddha If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Shirley Conran Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
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  • Tommy Lasorda Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Barton Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ba Jin The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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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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  • Horace Whatever advice you give, be short.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Youth is full of sport,
    age's breath is short;
    youth is nimble,
    age is lame;
    Youth is hot and bold,
    age is weak and cold;
    Youth is wild, and age is tame.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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