Quotes 41 till 60 of 127.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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