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539 quotesWe are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.
Potential
Jack Schwartz
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It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Sin
Scottish Proverb
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'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
Tact and Tactfulness
John Selden
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Fate
Seneca
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
Goals
Seneca
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Ambition
Seneca
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Youth
Seneca
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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Laughter
Seneca
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Anxiety
Seneca
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Despair
William Shakespeare
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The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
Hope
William Shakespeare
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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Mistakes
Gina Shapira
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Heartbreak
George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Amusement
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Reasonableness
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice
George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Change
Barbara Sher
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Adversity
Sirach
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Labor
Samuel Smiles
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You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
Children
Gypsy Smith
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Faith
Sydney Smith
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Suffering
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Modesty
Sir Richard Steele
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun