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539 quotesThe want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
Desire
Sir John Vanbrugh
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Learning
Virgil
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They are able because they think they are able.
Ability
Virgil
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
Exaggeration
Voltaire
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Doctors
Voltaire
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Theory
Voltaire
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Reason
Voltaire
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Vice
Voltaire
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It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.
Contentment
John Wagstaff
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Change
Denis Waitley
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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Responsibility
Denis Waitley
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Myth
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Wisdom
William A. Ward
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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
Laziness
Richard Weaver
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I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
Originality
Daniel Webster
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Life and Living
Simone Weil
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Oppression
Simone Weil
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
Change
H.G. Wells
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Goodness
H.G. Wells
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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Adversity
Edward Noyes Westcott
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Argument
Richard Whately
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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.
Power
Marcia Wieder
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Teachers and Teaching
Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
News
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun