"If you would convince others, seem open to……" — Lord Chesterfield
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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