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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Greatness
Hitopadesa

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Enjoyment
Ben Hogan

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Life and Living
Thomas L. Holdcroft

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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Society
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
Biography
Richard Holmes

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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Critics and Criticism
Lou Holtz

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Past
Horace

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Complaints and Complaining
Horace

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Attitude
Lena Horne

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Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
Plays
Josephine Hull

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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Possessions
Collis P. Huntingdon

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Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
Exercise
Robert M. Hutchins

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Action
Lee Iacocca

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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Churches
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
Pride
Jesse Jackson

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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Individuality
Japanese Proverb

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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
Popularity
John Keats

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Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Dreams
Neil Kendall

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No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Understanding
V. I. Klassen

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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Newspapers
Charles Lamb

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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Self-knowledge
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
Eyes
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Education
C. S. Lewis

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun