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145 quotesComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Giving
Andre Gide
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Time and Time Management
George Robert Gissing
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
Example
Oliver Goldsmith
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I improve on misquotation.
Quotations
Cary Grant
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When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Hiring
R. H. Grant
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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
Problems
Piet Hein
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If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
Quality
Geoffrey Hickson
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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.
Giving
Herschel Hobbs
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.
Bankers and Banking
Bob Hope
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Proverbs
Aldous Huxley
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Old wine and friends improve with age.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Italian Proverb
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Planning
Samuel Johnson
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Reform
Samuel Johnson
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Success
Walter Kane
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Proverbs
John Keats
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Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Quality
Thomas Kempis
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Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Practice
Chuck Knox
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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
Goals
E. L. Konigsburg
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education
Karl Kraus
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Timidity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books - Reading
Charles Lamb
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Reason
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
Living Together
Christopher Marlowe
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation
Andre Maurois
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun