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- No man was ever great by imitation.
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
- A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
- A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at…
- There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
- Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.…
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first…
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong