Quotes with single-person

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1433.

  • Horace Mann Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Tom Stoppard Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Alice Miller Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Henry Fielding Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • John Dryden Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Tacitus Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Patricia Sampson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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  • Walter Benjamin Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Mark Twain She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Jane Austen Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aldous Huxley Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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