"To be poor and independent is very nearly…" — William Cobbett
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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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 Impossibility Quotes
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
— Douglas Adams
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
— Ray Bradbury
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
— Anita Brookner
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Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything…
— Kirk Cameron
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the…
— Dale Carnegie
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves…
— Emile M. Cioran
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental…
— Ray Comfort
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