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25 quotesThe genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Proverbs
Francis Bacon
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Royalty
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Trains
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Freedom
Charles Caleb Colton
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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
Time and Time Management
Charles R. Darwin
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Diplomacy
Di Cavour
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A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Loneliness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Death and Dying
King Jr. Martin Luther
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
New World
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
Music
Ernest Newman
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Character
Thomas Paine
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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
Opportunity
Proverb
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Theory
Jean Rostand
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Friends and Friendship
William E. Rothschild
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Curiosity
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Time discovered truth.
Time and Time Management
Seneca
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]
Death and Dying
William Shakespeare
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Truth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Possibilities
Steven Spielberg
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Genius
Mark Twain
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America
Oscar Wilde
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Ideas
Young
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun