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12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them,… — Mother Teresa
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon… — Henry David Thoreau
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. — Mark Twain
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature! — Mark Twain
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by… — Jonathan Swift
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. — William Shakespeare
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very… — Charles Caleb Colton
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
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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