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1914 quotesIt is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Judgment and Judges
Alexander Pope
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Science and Scientists
Alexander Pope
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Vulgarity
Alexander Pope
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Wit
Alexander Pope
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Inspiration
Alexander Pope
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
Photography
Eliot Porter
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Books - Reading
Noah Porter
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
Peace
Portuguese Proverb
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Literature
Ezra Pound
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Image
Ezra Pound
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
War
Ezra Pound
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Books - Reading
Ezra Pound
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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Purpose
Adam Clayton Powell
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust
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A mother's heart is always with her children.
Mothers
Proverb
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Wealth
Proverb
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
Progress
Proverb
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
Force
Proverb
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
Victory
Proverb
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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Love
Proverb
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Never find fault with the absent.
Absence
Proverb
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
Correction
Proverb
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Respect starts with yourself.
Respectability
Proverb
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
Gambling
Proverb
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Speakers and Speaking
Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun