There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Life   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Subject:
Desperation   
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Wisdom   
Happiness   
Power   
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Freedom   
Government   
American Presidential Quotes   
Work: letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
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Just can't live that negative way... make way for the positive day!
Author:
Bob Marley
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Relationship   
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Politics   
Government   
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Peace   
Grief   
Spiritual   
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Wisdom   
Life   
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Author:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subject:
Fear   
Quotations   
American Presidential Quotes   
Work: First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Ability   
Action   
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Wisdom   
Community   
American Presidential Quotes   
Work: inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Character   
Men   
Nation   
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Author:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subject:
Future   
Youth   
American Presidential Quotes   
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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
Author:
Bill Clinton
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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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.
Author:
William Jennings Bryan
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
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I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Intellect   
Politics   
Economics   
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Humor   
American Presidential Quotes   
Military   
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Life   
Success   
Work   
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