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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Strength, Sometimes

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm Forbes

Someone, Less, Hire

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

God, Sports, School

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing, Talent, Genius

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Heart, Goes, Knife

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce

America, Everyone, Last

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

Everything, Joy, Means

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Age, Nothing, Another

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope

Future, State, Fate

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
Al Unser

Dad, Everything, Teach

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

Wise, Fool, Himself

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter

Women, God, Heart

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald

Less, Beast, Nearer

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
Alfred A. Montapert

God, Happy, True

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker

Long, Done, America

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery O'Connor

Faith, True, Someone

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
Jennifer Lawrence

Someone, Person, Before

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet

Betrayal, Nothing, Anyone

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana

Beauty, Good, Lovers

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
David Brenner

Girl, Looking, Bar

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

Life, Human, Made

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
Mary J. Blige

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

Everyone, Fact, Guilty

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

Knowledge, Nothing, Extent

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
Charles Stanley

God, Character, Children

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI

Women, Men, Before

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

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