Great famous quotes - Page 161

Writing

The pen is the tongue of the min…

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The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes

Success

The penalty of success is to be …

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. Little, M.W.

Decision

The people themselves, and not t…

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. Lincoln, Abraham

Human

The perfect joys of heaven do no…

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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. Hazlitt, William

Progress

The perfecting of one’s self is …

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The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. Confucius

Grief

The person who grieves suffers h…

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. Burke, Edmund

Philosophy

The philosophers have only inter…

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it. Marx, Karl

Wisdom

The pine stays green in winter…..

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The pine stays green in winter…Wisdom in hardship. Chinese Proverb

Individuality

The plague of mankind is the fea…

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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own […]

Acting

The play is done; the curtain dr…

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The play is done; the curtain dro Thackery, William

Art

The poet ranks far below the pai…

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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin Da Vinci, Leonardo

Thoughts

The power of Thought, the magic …

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The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind! Byron, Lord