"Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single……" — William Matthews
"Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth."
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19 Quotes by William Matthews
William Matthews has 19 quotes on this site.
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The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach…
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Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's…
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The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
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The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when…
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Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
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Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital…
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly…
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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do…
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We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
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With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving…
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More Half Quotes
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one of 5,615 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
— Teresa of Avila
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
— Sebastian Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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