"Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie,……" — Robert Greene
"Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight."
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108 Quotes by Robert Greene
Robert Greene has 108 quotes on this site.
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes…
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative…
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and…
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If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your…
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone…
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are…
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More Alight Quotes
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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that…
— Rupert Hughes
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the…
— Lenny Kaye
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this…
— Robert Greene
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary,…
— Stephen Leacock
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
— Philip Guedalla
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