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14 quotesWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Present
Francis Bacon
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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Crime and Criminals
Ambrose Bierce
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Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
People
William T. Davis
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Studying
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Laughter
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
Riches
Martin Luther
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Money
Martin Luther
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Doing common things uncommonly well.
Excellence
Orison Swett Marden
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Bernard Shaw
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Conflict
Sir Philip Sidney
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Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Intuition
Source Unknown
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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success
Source Unknown
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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
Words
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun