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13535 quotesPatience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
Patience
Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Soul
Charles Caleb Colton
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Charles Caleb Colton
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth
Charles Caleb Colton
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Fraud
Charles Caleb Colton
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Adversity
Charles Caleb Colton
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Prudence
Charles Caleb Colton
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Conflict
Charles Caleb Colton
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Knowledge
Charles Caleb Colton
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Past
Charles Caleb Colton
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Friends and Friendship
Charles Caleb Colton
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Freedom
Charles Caleb Colton
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins
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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
Action
Lanes Company
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The dead govern the living.
Tradition
Auguste Comte
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Risk
James B. Conant
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Failure
Confucius
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Knowledge
Confucius
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Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
Risk
Confucius
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Love
Confucius
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Manners
Confucius
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Fate
Confucius
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Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
Worry
Confucius
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Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Complaints and Complaining
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun