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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Mistrust first impulses;...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Mistrust first impulses;...

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Source: Sometimes attrib. to...

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Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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Stanley Baldwin: I would rather...

Stanley Baldwin: I would rather...

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles round my...

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A J Balfour: I rather think...

A J Balfour: I rather think...

I rather think of having a career of my own.

Source: When asked whether he was...

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Henry David Thoreau: Behave so the...

Henry David Thoreau: Behave so the...

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

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Henry David Thoreau: Wherever a man...

Henry David Thoreau: Wherever a man...

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to...

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Henry David Thoreau: The perch swallows...

Henry David Thoreau: The perch swallows...

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all...

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Henry David Thoreau: Live your beliefs...

Henry David Thoreau: Live your beliefs...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Source: From Journey in Word,...

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Henry David Thoreau: Men are probably...

Henry David Thoreau: Men are probably...

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

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Henry David Thoreau: I would rather...

Henry David Thoreau: I would rather...

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet...

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Thomas Carlyle: Adversity is sometimes...

Thomas Carlyle: Adversity is sometimes...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand...

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Thomas Carlyle: France was long...

Thomas Carlyle: France was long...

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

Source: History of the French...

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Thomas Carlyle: For man is...

Thomas Carlyle: For man is...

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Doubt, of whatever...

Thomas Carlyle: Doubt, of whatever...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: Foolish men imagine...

Thomas Carlyle: Foolish men imagine...

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here...

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Thomas Carlyle: If those gentlemen...

Thomas Carlyle: If those gentlemen...

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say......

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Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so...

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Thomas Carlyle: No ghost was...

Thomas Carlyle: No ghost was...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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