Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Calamities are of two kind’s misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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Carter this is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, and I’m the king.
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Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.
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Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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I hate facts.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames...
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Without justice courage is weak.
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Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.
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How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
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Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
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Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content.
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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
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It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
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Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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