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We are to...

We are to...

We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always...

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When men come...

When men come...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

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Saint Augustine: Who can map...

Saint Augustine: Who can map...

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier...

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Francis Bacon: Hope is a...

Francis Bacon: Hope is a...

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Source: 'Apophthegms'
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Francis Bacon: He was reputed...

Francis Bacon: He was reputed...

He was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? A young man not yet, an...

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Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us, since life can little...

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Alexander Pope: Be not the...

Alexander Pope: Be not the...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.


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Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by...

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Alexander Pope: Lo! thy dread...

Alexander Pope: Lo! thy dread...

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets...

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Alexander Pope: Most authors steal...

Alexander Pope: Most authors steal...

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alexander Pope: Whether you choose...

Alexander Pope: Whether you choose...

Whether you choose Cervantes' serious air,
Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' armchair.


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Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Better not be...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Better not be...

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis held that...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis held that...

'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Source: In Memoriam, 113 (Note: the stanza...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And slowly answer'd...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And slowly answer'd...

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:
'The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils...

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Oscar Wilde: Private information is...

Oscar Wilde: Private information is...

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with...

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Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...

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Ogden Nash: The only people...

Ogden Nash: The only people...

The only people who should really sin
Are the people who can sin with a grin.


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