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961 quotesThe greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Literature
Jean Cocteau
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Greatness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Tolerance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Opportunity
Jeremy Collier
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It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Desire
Robert Collier
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Opportunity
Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Soul
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Truth
Confucius
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Failure
Confucius
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Happiness
Confucius
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
Conversation
William Congreve
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Marriage
Cyril Connolly
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Words
Joseph Conrad
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Uncategorised
Calvin Coolidge
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
Power
E. Joseph Cossman
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The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Inspiration
Comer Cotrell
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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.
Ideas
Cotvos
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Indifference
Abraham Cowley
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Slavery
William Cowper
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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
Conscience
D'Avenant
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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Greatness
Frank Dane
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Books - Reading
Frank Dane
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Memory
Dante Alighieri
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He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
Greatness
Clarence Darrow
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun