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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Short, Times

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Wise, Ignorant

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Before, Equal, Century

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther

Life, Faith, God

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Self, Battles

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos

Three, Shoes, Sixty

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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

Deep, Words, Leave

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir

God, Cannot, Fools

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Down, Sense, Keep

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Imitations

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Enough, Playing

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

Friends, Meet, Minute

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart

End, Tomorrow, Present

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Easy, Looks, Farming

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland

Alone, Feeling, Stage

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Dance, Learn, Rather

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
W. C. Fields

Done, Easy, Off

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson

Rich, State, Chaos

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

Away, Ocean, Gave

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach

Live, Once, Lives

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

Men, Live, Cannot

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo

Beautiful, Ugly, Type

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

Fear, Yourself, Depression

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Four, Newspapers, Feared

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Speak, Silent, Ten

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

Down, Until, Progress

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore

Wisdom, Wife, Thinking

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams

Government, While, Three

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