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THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will ...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER GREAT I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER GREAT Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ...
ALEXANDER GREAT I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory...
ALEXANDER GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER GREAT I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE GREAT I am one of the people who love the why of things
CATHERINE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE GREAT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE GREAT If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off
CATHERINE GREAT People drinking these beers enjoy the flavors and drink them a lot slower than normal beers.
CATHERINE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE GREAT I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly wh...
CATHERINE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do ...
CATHERINE GREAT The Many Trials of One Jane Doe.
GREAT WHITE [To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in hi...
GREAT BRITAIN Once Bitten, Twice Shy.
GREAT WHITE I don't have to have all of it, I had some, I'm happy.
GREAT APE Andrea Tafi was the winner of the first professional bike race my wife and I ever saw in 1997 and so...
GREAT BRITAIN I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus ...
GREAT BRITAIN The organisers have done a fantastic job all week given the volume of traffic we have in this countr...
GREAT BRITAIN GET BACK IN YOUR CAVE.
GREAT BRITAIN Life. It works better if your already smart.
GREAT APE Why can't I think as well as I can see?
GREAT APE I think, I am a thought, that can think.
The most basic and at the same time the biggest thought pos...
GREAT APE I don't want to have an opinion anymore. I can't please everyone, isn't that what they're for?
GREAT APE It sounds like I'm already dead, I just don't know it yet.
GREAT APE A fool and his money together again.
GREAT APE I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE Well we are monkeys, only our eeks and ahhs sound like P's and Q's
GREAT APE And the oldest birds hunt when they can see.
GREAT APE I don't gamble. I take chances. I don't play with money, I play with life as I know it.
GREAT APE There's a big difference between making a change and making a million.
GREAT APE Avenue Q
GREAT WHITE The Angel Song.
GREAT WHITE Our thoughts and prayers are with those that have passed away, those that are suffering and to the f...
GREAT WHITE vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets.
GREAT BRITAIN We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out ther...
GREAT BRITAIN Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion o...
GREAT BRITAIN one country, two systems.
GREAT BRITAIN we demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma.
GREAT BRITAIN Beginning and average players are in great demand.
JOHN AMELSBERG All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN Alfie [Thomas] will be captain, he's a brilliant captain, but it was great standing in for him.
MICHAEL OWEN We are seeing great demand for our products in corporate America.
GREG WOOCK In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
ARISTOTLE Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces...
HENRIETTA HOLSMAN Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
BILL GATES At half past one in the morning, three sides of Union Square were in flames. The fourth side, where ...
JACK LONDON He has great enthusiasm, great intensity, great passion and a love for the game. He's another guy wh...
JACK ARMSTRONG Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON Martha Stewart Living. The momentum is continuing to build and clearly there's great demand.
ELIZABETH ESTROFF USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from ...
DAVID ROBINSON Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 The great thing, and the only thing,...
THOMAS MERTON I didn't realise the numbers were quite that good. To beat Thomas is a great win for me and I'm deli...
DAVID HOWELL St. Thomas More has a great defensive team. They pressure the ball so well and they really get into ...
DONAVAN DEBOER The offering was met with great demand from both Europe and the United States, with extremely high q...
HENRIK GOBEL Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to ...
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL (3) I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be m...
ERIC LINDROS Up-selling Oxford Media's Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View solutions have shortened our sales cycle ...
WENDY PALMER You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
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FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
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FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
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POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
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FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
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FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
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FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
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FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth.
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FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
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FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
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FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON