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Success
Woody Allen
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
Obesity
Fatty Arbuckle
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
Francis Bacon
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Laughter
Honore De Balzac
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Failure
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Order
Napoleon Bonaparte
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Age and Aging
George Burns
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Suspicion
Robert Burns
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
Reality
Lord Byron
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Necessity
Albert Camus
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Despair
Thomas Carlyle
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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Champman
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Common Sense
Albert Einstein
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Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Sleep
English Proverb
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Ideas
Robert Frost
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Happiness
Robert Frost
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Promises
German Proverb
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
Excellence
Jascha Heifetz
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
Burdens
George Herbert
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Perseverance
Thomas H. Huxley
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun