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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
Plutarch

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Change
Alexander Pope

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First deserve then desire.
Desire
Proverb

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The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself.
Counsel
Proverb

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The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
Blame
Proverb

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The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Greatness
Proverb

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The silent dog is the first to bite.
Silence
Proverb

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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Insanity
Proverb

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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrets
Cardinal De Richelieu

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Goals
Anthony Robbins

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Excellence
Anita Roddick

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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
Automobiles
Will Rogers

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Work
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Education
John Ruskin

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Dreams
Carl Sandburg

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The republic is a dreamNothing happens unless first a dream.
Uncategorised
Carl Sandburg

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana

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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Jest
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Faith
Friedrich Schlegel

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Faces
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Life and Living
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Explanations
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Deceit
Sir Walter Scott

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Secker

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Punishment
Seneca

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