Unavailing Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your…
— P T Barnum
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To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,…
— Edward Everett
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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power…
— John Dryden
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The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can…
— James Anthony Froude
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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of…
— Emily Bronte
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much…
— Charles Dickens
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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many…
— Charles Dickens
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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game…
— O. Henry
Who Wrote These Unavailing Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Unavailing Quotes as follows: