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776 quotesThat kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
self-esteem
Samuel Johnson
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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Enemies
Ernest Jones
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
Blame
Erica Jong
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Adversity
Ben Jonson
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Illness
Ben Jonson
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Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Vision
Herbert Kaufman
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Originality
Patrick Kavanagh
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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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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
self-esteem
Thomas Kempis
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
John Maynard Keynes
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Life and Living
Soren Kierkegaard
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Personality
Soren Kierkegaard
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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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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
Opinions
Klopstock
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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
Medicine
Gerhard Kocher
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Arts and Artists
Willem De Kooning
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Children
Karl Kraus
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A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Secrets
Jean De La Bruyere
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
Vanity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Work
Ann Landers
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun