Quotes with well-spent

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1460.

  • Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. C. Forbes He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Daisy Ashford Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According to those who haven't - like her husband - she's a delight.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Havelock Ellis However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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