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776 quotesThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
Learning
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Leaders and Leadership
Henri B. Stendhal
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Pain
John Sterling
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Ancestry
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Consequences
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Consequences
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Law and Lawyers
Max Stirner
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If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
Hollywood
Sharon Stone
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
Responsibility
Mikhail Strabo
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Self-reliance
Meryl Streep
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Sensuality
Charles Sumner
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Kindness
Ben Sweetland
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
Dress
Jonathan Swift
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Mistakes
Jonathan Swift
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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Power
Publilius Syrus
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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
Success
Publilius Syrus
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From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Mistakes
Publilius Syrus
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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Purpose
S. G. Tallentyre
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Opinions
Booth Tarkington
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From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.
Responsibility
Tecumseh
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Sorrow
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Humor
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Change
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun