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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
[ Charles Caleb Colton ]
887 votes.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Deeds and Good Deeds
[ Eliza Cook ]
887 votes.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
State
[ Henri Frederic Amiel ]
886 votes.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
Biography
[ Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley ]
886 votes.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
Perseverance
[ J. Askenberg ]
886 votes.

Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet.
Capitalism
[ Vadim Bakatin ]
886 votes.

With renunciation life begins.
Abstinence
[ Amelia E. Barr ]
886 votes.

Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Committees and Meetings
[ Milton Berle ]
886 votes.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Common Sense
[ Josh Billings ]
886 votes.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness
[ Edward De Bono ]
886 votes.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
Opinions
[ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ]
886 votes.

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
Public Office
[ Jean De La Bruyere ]
886 votes.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
Democracy
[ William F. Buckley ]
886 votes.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Books - Reading
[ Lord Byron ]
886 votes.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Humankind
[ Eileen Caddy ]
886 votes.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
Possibilities
[ Mark Caine ]
886 votes.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Bed
[ Angela Carter ]
886 votes.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Teachers and Teaching
[ Gilbert K. Chesterton ]
886 votes.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Calamity
[ William Davenant ]
886 votes.

Patience is passion tamed.
Patience
[ Lyman Abbott ]
885 votes.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Education
[ Joseph Addison ]
885 votes.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
Respectability
[ Henri Frederic Amiel ]
885 votes.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure
[ Aristotle ]
885 votes.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Politicians and Politics
[ Margot Asquith ]
885 votes.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Action
[ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ]
885 votes.

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