Confers Quotes
48 quotes by 45 authors
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
— Edith Wharton
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and…
— Archibald Rutledge
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
— Horace
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
— Moliere
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right…
— Adolf Hitler
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to…
— Tony Snow
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing…
— Georges Besancon
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The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.
— Tristan Bernard
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers…
— Sissela Bok
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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can…
— Mark Twain
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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of…
— Lyman Trumbull
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of…
— Demosthenes
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
— Aristotle
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
— Juvenal
Who Wrote These Confers Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 48 Confers Quotes, led by these top contributors: