"Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality," — Felix Dennis
"Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,"
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85 Quotes by Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis has 85 quotes on this site.
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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous…
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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of…
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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come…
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It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can…
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going…
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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just…
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Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on…
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When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose…
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Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.
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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to…
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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is…
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More Immortality Quotes
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind…
— Joseph Addison
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
— Mel Brooks
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
— H. L. Mencken
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