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Amusing Famous Sayings - 197
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Victor Hugo
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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Ben Azai, Mishna
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
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T. S. Eliot
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
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Ben Jonson
Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
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Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
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Solomon Short
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Joseph Conrad
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Lucius Accius
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
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William Shakespeare
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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