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| Lord Acton |
Property is not the sacred...
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| Aeschylus |
Ah, lives of men! When...
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| Aeschylus |
For this is the mark of...
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| Walt Alston |
Look at misfortune the same...
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| Aristotle |
Misfortune shows those who are...
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| Marcus Aurelius |
Here is the rule to remember...
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| Jane Austen |
A woman, especially, if she...
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| Walter Bagehot |
A man's mother is his...
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| Russell Baker |
Reporters thrive on the world's...
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| Honore de Balzac |
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness...
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| Lionel Barrymore |
This is the age of insincerity...
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| Harry Browne |
The government's War on Poverty...
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| Jean de la Bruyere |
This great misfortune - to be...
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| Elias Canetti |
Every decision is liberating, even...
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| Chanakya |
Test a servant while in the...
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| Lord Chesterfield |
As fathers commonly go, it is...
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| Lydia M. Child |
Misfortune is never mournful to...
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| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
No one has the right to...
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| Emile M. Cioran |
We interest others by the...
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| James F. Cooper |
It is a misfortune that...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
The difference between a misfortune...
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| Epicurus |
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the...
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| Epicurus |
The misfortune of the wise is...
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| Euripides |
In misfortune, which friend remains...
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| R. Buckminster Fuller |
Rashness is the faithful, but...
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| Ulysses S. Grant |
It was my fortune, or...
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| Franz Grillparzer |
It's the misfortune of German...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
There is one type of ideal...
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| Herodotus |
The most hateful human misfortune...
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| Alexander Herzen |
No one is to blame. It...
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| Hesiod |
A bad neighbor is a misfortune...
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| Hesiod |
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune...
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| Napoleon Hill |
Opportunity often comes disguised in...
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| Washington Irving |
Little minds are tamed and...
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| William James |
Acceptance of what has happened...
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| William James |
Be willing to have it so...
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| Franz Kafka |
Don Quixote's misfortune is not...
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| Alphonse Karr |
I gather from a lawyer that...
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| Lajos Kossuth |
I believe that the confidence...
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| Ferdinand Lassalle |
Only in a popular war against...
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| George Mason |
Your dear baby has died...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
The world is quickly bored by...
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| William McFee |
Doing what's right is no...
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| William McFee |
People don't seem to realize...
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| William McFee |
People don't ever seem to...
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| Bryant H. McGill |
Knowledge is that possession that...
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| Austin O'Malley |
The worst misfortune that can...
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| Ovid |
Whether you call my heart...
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| Saskya Pandita |
Much talking is the cause of...
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| Blaise Pascal |
The weather and my mood have...
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| Laurence J. Peter |
Fortune knocks but once, but...
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| Plato |
Ignorance of all things is an...
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| Arthur Rimbaud |
I am the slave of my...
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| Arthur Rimbaud |
Misfortune was my god.
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| Franz Schubert |
A man endures misfortune without...
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| Franz Schubert |
The greatest misfortune of the...
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| Charles de Secondat |
Not to be loved is a...
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| Gregorio M. Sierra |
How can you expect a man...
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| Charles Simmons |
It is a great evil, as...
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| Frank Sinatra |
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal...
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| Sophocles |
It is the task of a...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed...
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| Robert Stevenson |
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Quiet minds can't be perplexed...
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| Charles R. Swindoll |
The swift wind of compromise...
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| Tacitus |
Prosperity is the measure or...
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| Thucydides |
It is frequently a misfortune...
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| Anthony Trollope |
Success is the necessary misfortune...
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| Paul Valery |
Man's great misfortune is that...
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| Virgil |
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I...
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| Simone Weil |
If we are suffering illness...
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| Simone Weil |
With no matter what human...
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| Edith Wharton |
Misfortune had made Lily supple...
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| Oscar Wilde |
To lose one parent may be...
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| Bert Williams |
The man with the real sense...
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| Isaac Mayer Wise |
In the same proportion Russia...
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| Virginia Woolf |
One likes people much better...
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| Loretta Young |
Unless some misfortune has made...
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| Marguerite Yourcenar |
A young musician plays scales...
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| Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
The measure of a man is...
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| Stefan Zweig |
Only the misfortune of exile...
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