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776 quotesOld age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Age and Aging
Cato The Elder
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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Fame
Nicolas Caussin
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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.
Competition
Steve Cauthen
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Every man is the son of his own works.
Work
Miguel De Cervantes
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Action
Miguel De Cervantes
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
Punishment
Miguel De Cervantes
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Parents and Parenting
Miguel De Cervantes
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Discipline
Miguel De Cervantes
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
Work
Miguel De Cervantes
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
Home
Miguel De Cervantes
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Fame
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Enemies
William Ellery Channing
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Hope
William Ellery Channing
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
Lord Chesterfield
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Egotism
Lord Chesterfield
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We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Destiny
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Decisions
Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Children
Chinese Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Learning
Chinese Proverb
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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Simplicity
Chinese Proverb
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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Patience
Chinese Proverb
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Joy
Chuang Tzu
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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Speakers and Speaking
Winston Churchill
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun