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Post by gator on Jun 16, 2021 17:19:35 GMT
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils; and in the main it will be found that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
(1755-1804)
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Post by gator on Oct 13, 2021 4:11:44 GMT
History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production—by the force of economic conditions.
Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
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Post by gator on Oct 15, 2021 1:23:28 GMT
You and I, dear reader, are each the center of the universe in our respective opinions. You, as I understand it, were brought into being by a considerate Providence in order that you might read and pay me for what I write; while I, in your opinion, am an article sent into the world to write something for you to read.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by gator on Oct 15, 2021 4:14:51 GMT
The greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods ... some particular affair; but to such as they make their counselors, they commit the whole.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by gator on Oct 16, 2021 22:56:59 GMT
We love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by gator on Oct 17, 2021 4:53:54 GMT
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(1849-1924)
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Post by gator on Oct 18, 2021 5:06:30 GMT
It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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Post by gator on Oct 19, 2021 5:25:30 GMT
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by gator on Oct 20, 2021 4:09:08 GMT
It's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
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Post by gator on Oct 21, 2021 4:43:50 GMT
We must have felt what it is to die ... that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)
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Post by gator on Oct 22, 2021 5:13:56 GMT
When I talk of eyes, the stars come out! Whose eyes are they? If they are angels' eyes, why do they look down here and see good men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night?
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by gator on Oct 23, 2021 7:00:55 GMT
Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by gator on Oct 24, 2021 4:39:30 GMT
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by gator on Oct 25, 2021 5:04:09 GMT
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out.
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
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Post by gator on Oct 26, 2021 4:34:12 GMT
Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881)
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