Quotations Page 'A'
Saturday, 07 September 2024
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire -
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There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
- Rochefoucauld -
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Ability is poor man's wealth.
- M.Wren-
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To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill.
- Rochefoucauld -
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, Fare the well!
- Thomas H.Bayly, Isle of Beauty -
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Absence from those we love is self from self-a deadly banishment.
- Shakespeare -
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For there's nae luck about the house,There's nae luck at a' :There's little pleasure in the house.When our gudeman's awa.'
- William Julius Mickle, The Mariner's Wife -
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Love reckons for months, and days for years and every little absence in an age.
- Anon -
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My mind lets go a thousand things,Like dates of wars and death of kings.
- Thomas Baily Aldrich, Memory -
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"The horror of that moment, " the King went on, "I shall never, never forget !""You will, though, " the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandam of it."
- Lewis Carroll -
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
- Charles Lamb, AmecusRedivivus -
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It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.
- William Shakespeare -
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Abstinence is as easy to me as teperance would be difficult.
- Johonson -
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Abuse is often of service.
- Johonson -
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Abise me as often as you will; it is often a benefit than any injury.
- E.Nott -
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
- Rousseao -
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families and in families not regulated by that persuading influence which sanctifies while it enhance - I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman in the lofty character of wife.
- Dickens, David Copperfield -
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Accident counts for much in companionship as in Marriage.
- Henry Brooks Adams, The Education Henry Adams -
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty, inaccuracy of dishonesty.
- C.Simmons -
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