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Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 10185.

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
  

  Malcolm X
  American activist (1925 - 1965)
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• Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

  Ezra Taft Benson
  American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• Be thrifty, but not covetous.

  George Herbert
  English poet (1593 - 1633)
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• Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  Helen Gurley Brown
  American author, publisher and businesswoman (1922 - 2012)
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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

  Jean Rostand
  French writer (1894 - 1977)
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• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
  a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
  a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
  a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
  lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

  George Bancroft
  American historian (1800 - 1891)
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• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  Kin Hubbard
  American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

  George Bancroft
  American historian (1800 - 1891)
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• Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

  Arnold Bennett
  British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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• Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

  Ben Folds
  American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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• Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• performance
• deprivation
• appearance
• reflection
• utterances
• simplicity

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