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Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 2349.

  • Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Katherine Mansfield To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Will Rogers Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Source: Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Jean Cocteau True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Robert Smith True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
    Robert Smith
     
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  • James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
    Source: Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse Rule 9
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Immanuel Kant Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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