Long Quotes

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. — Seneca the Younger
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. — Helen Keller
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. — Bob Hope
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets? — Tom Peters
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. — Thorstein Veblen
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must… — Pope John Paul II
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. — Joseph Addison
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never… — Charles Dickens
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… — Cesar Chavez

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