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13535 quotesIt is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestry
Plutarch
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Adversity
Plutarch
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Rest
Plutarch
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Silence
Plutarch
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Uncategorised
Plutarch
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
Plutarch
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Achievement
Plutarch
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Plutarch
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Children
Plutarch
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They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].
Applause
Plutarch
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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Time and Time Management
Plutarch
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Money
Plutarch
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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Thoughts and Thinking
Huang Po
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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
Farming and Farmers
R. Pocock
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Beauty
Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Coward and Cowardice
Edgar Allan Poe
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Mobs
Edgar Allan Poe
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Slander
Edgar Allan Poe
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
Greatness
Maralyn Polak
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We're talking scum here. Air should be illegal if they breathe it.
Drugs
Policeman
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Ability
John G. Pollard
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Home
Channing Pollock
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Courage
Channing Pollock
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Hobos
Jackson Pollock
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun