Quotations Page 'A'
Saturday, 07 September 2024
Valuting ambition which overleaps itself
- Shakespeare -
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
- Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel -
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and suc and success.
- Madame Swetchine -
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Amusement to an observing mind in study.
- Disraeli -
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Anarchy is hatred of human authority, atheism of adevine authority - two sides of the same whole.
- Macphetron -
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The man who has not anything to bost of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
- Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters -
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Breed is stronger pasture.
- George Eliot -
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
- Moliere -
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Look homeward, Angle, now, and melt with truth.
- Milton Lycidas -
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And flights of angels sing thee to the rest.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
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We are like angels till our passion dies.
- Decker -
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Anger is short madness.
- Horace Epistles -
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To be angry is revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Pope -
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Bacon -
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Anger is one of the sinews of soul.
- Fuller -
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To be furiousIs to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood, the dove will peck the estridge.
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra -
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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
- Porteous -
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Nothing is good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot -
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..
- Pascal -
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