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Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 1861.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Confucius To love a thing means wanting it to live.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
    Source: Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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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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  • Charles Dickens Tongue: well that's a very good thing when it ain't a woman's.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mae West Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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