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138 quotesThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Poverty and The Poor
Melville D. Landon
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Stubbornness
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Publishing and Publishers
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Advantage
Sophia Loren
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Work
James Russell Lowell
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Wisdom
Maurice Maeterlinck
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I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
Daughters
John Malkovich
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Death and Dying
Marcus Manilius
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Infidelity
Andre Maurois
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Murder
Octave Mirbeau
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Poets are born, not paid.
Poetry and Poets
Addison Mizner
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Power
Hans J. Morgenthau
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Socializing and Socialism
Hector Hugh Munro
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Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there.
Obesity
Les Murray
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Courage
Ovid
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Past
Ovid
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Averages
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Life and Living
Boris Pasternak
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Behavior
Cesare Pavese
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Perspective
Sylvia Plath
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Faith
Alexander Pope
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
Cities and City Life
Ezra Pound
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Family
V. S. Pritchett
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun