Popular Quotes from Great Minds

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

God helps those who help themselves.

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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Half a truth is often a great lie.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.