Few Persons Quotes

37 quotes by 28 authors

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. — Alfred de Musset
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army.… — Jean Paul
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom… — Gilbert Murray
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly… — Isaac Butt
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for… — Pope Leo XII
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — Augustus Hare
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least… — Adam Clarke
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their… — Edgar Allan Poe
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed… — John Burroughs
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they… — Edmund Burke
Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often… — Vash Young
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. — Humphry Davy
Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle… — Edgar Allan Poe
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. — James Thurber
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts… — Albert Einstein

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