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464 quotesI strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Quarrels
Walter Savage Landor
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Busyness
Walter Savage Landor
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Censorship
D. H. Lawrence
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Age and Aging
Tom Lehrer
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Self-improvement
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Publishing and Publishers
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Heaven
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Ancestry
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Self-improvement
Abraham Lincoln
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Property
Walter Lippmann
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Language
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Affection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
Scholars and Scholarship
James Russell Lowell
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
Knowledge
James Russell Lowell
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Might was the measure of right.
Morality
F. L. Lucan
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Man was predestined to have free will.
Will and Will Power
Hal Luyah
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Scholars and Scholarship
Thomas B. Macaulay
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Thomas B. Macaulay
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Honesty
Sidney Madwed
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Evil
Joseph De Maistre
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Anger
Malabar Proverb
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Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
Vision
Louis L. Mann
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Regret
Katherine Mansfield
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Waste
Orison Swett Marden
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun