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539 quotesNotable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Discretion
Junius
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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Writers and Writing
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Reason
Immanuel Kant
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Excellence
John Keats
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
Security
John Keats
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
Certainty
John F. Kennedy
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John F. Kennedy
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Thoughts and Thinking
Charles F. Kettering
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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
Business
Victor Kiam
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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
Goals
E. L. Konigsburg
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Happiness
Sir Roger L'Estrange
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Discretion
Jean De La Fontaine
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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
Teachers and Teaching
Fr?ric-C?r La Harpe
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Hope and fear are inseparable.
Hope
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Secrets
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Modesty
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Innocence
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Pettiness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
Vanity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Busyness
Walter Savage Landor
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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Appreciation
Latin Proverb
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The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
Competition
Rod Laver
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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Government
Nigel Lawson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun