Often Makes Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
— Josh Billings
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
— Henri Nouwen
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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
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Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved…
— John Polkinghorne
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A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
— Evan Esar
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,…
— Plutarch
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Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other…
— David Baldacci
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This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,…
— William O. Douglas
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple,…
— Marina Warner
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Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful.…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
— Mason Cooley
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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
— Saint Augustine
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Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.
— William Shakespeare
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
— Norm MacDonald
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Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
— Louis L'Amour
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