"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance……" — William Cobbett
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites,…
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to…
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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