"I defy you to agitate any fellow with…" — William Cobbett
"I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach."
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34 Quotes by William Cobbett
William Cobbett has 34 quotes on this site.
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when…
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who…
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his…
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot…
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is…
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time…
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and…
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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More Agitate Quotes
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.
— Sun Tzu
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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
— Andrew Dickson White
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll…
— Carl G. Fisher
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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
— Radhanath Swami
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The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances
— Vandana Shiva
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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is…
— Ernestine Rose
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we…
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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