Blow Quote by William Gilbert

“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.” quote by William Gilbert — Download Open image

“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.”

William Gilbert

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The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

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Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

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I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

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A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the…

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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

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Philosophy is for the few.

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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

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The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic…

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