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61 quotesHard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Talent
Robert Half
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
William Dean Howells
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Plays
Elbert Hubbard
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
Tragedies
Aldous Huxley
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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Tragedies
Billy Joel
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
Courage
Sheldon Kopp
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Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Tragedies
D. H. Lawrence
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
Work
Abraham Lincoln
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Risk
Walter Lippmann
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Tragedies
John Masefield
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There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.
Tragedies
William D. Montapert
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Purpose
Arthur E. Morgan
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Theater
John Mortimer
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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Tragedies
Dorothy Parker
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Losers and Losing
Joe Paterno
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
Confidence
William Pitt
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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Tragedies
Margaret Sackville
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Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
Management
Saying
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Memory
George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Tragedies
George Bernard Shaw
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Tragedies
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Desire
Socrates
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A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Statistics
Joseph Stalin
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tragedies
Tom Stoppard
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun