Quotes with well-descended

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Jonson Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
    Is virtue, and not fate:
    Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
    And her black spite expel.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Angelus Silesius Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • William Cobbett Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • John Henry Newman Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Barack Obama Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Parcells Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Carl Forti Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bobby Rahal Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son.
    Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on.
    God say, No. Abe say, What?
    God say, You can do what you want Abe, but
    the next time you see me comin' you better run.
    Well Abe says, Where do you want this killin' done?
    God says, Out on Highway 61.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Oh, when I was in love with you
    Then I was clean and brave,
    And miles around the wonder grew
    How well did I behave.

    And now the fancy passes by
    And nothing will remain,
    And miles around they'll say that I
    Am quite myself again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anita Brookner Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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