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3284 quotesThou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Competition
Arthur Hugh Clough
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Funerals
Irvin S. Cobb
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Epitaphs
Irvin S. Cobb
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Fashion
Irvin S. Cobb
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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Luck
Jean Cocteau
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Body
Leonard Cohen
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Business
Sir Edward Coke
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Pride
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
Dance and Dancing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Honor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Song and Singing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Poetry and Poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Age and Aging
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
Change
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Giving
Robert Collier
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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Reactionaries
Robin G. Collingwood
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Adversity
Kitty O'neill Collins
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Doubt
Charles Caleb Colton
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor
Charles Caleb Colton
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Knowledge
Charles Caleb Colton
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Revenge
Confucius
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Manners
Confucius
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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Family
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun