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776 quotesAnd whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Sympathy
Walt Whitman
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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Freedom
Walt Whitman
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Obesity
Walt Whitman
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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Children
Dr. Who
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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
Purpose
Marcia Wieder
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Daughters
Oscar Wilde
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Music
Oscar Wilde
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde
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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Reputation
Oscar Wilde
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Popularity
Oscar Wilde
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books - Reading
Oscar Wilde
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Suffering
Oscar Wilde
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde
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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Plays
Thornton Wilder
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
God
Ted Williams
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Loneliness
Tennessee Williams
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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
Isolation
Tennessee Williams
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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
self-esteem
Woodrow T. Wilson
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Mediocrity
William M. Winans
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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Greatness
Oprah Winfrey
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Writers and Writing
Virginia Woolf
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Frank Lloyd Wright
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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Destiny
Yiddish Proverb
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When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.
Zen
Ying-An
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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
Quotations
Edward Young
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun