Advantages Quotes

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company! — Mark Twain
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please… — Jonathan Swift
Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you… — Confucius
We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we… — Richard Sibbes
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of… — Richard Sibbes
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to… — Joel Barlow
In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner. You are more… — Grete Waitz
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.… — James Monroe
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen… — William Henry Harrison
The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those… — Roger L'Estrange
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share… — Irving Janis
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster

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