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WILLIAM HAZLITT No truly great man ever thought himself so.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT "Those who judge you, can do so because they are perfectly flawless themselves", said no person ever...
KATHERINE DIVOLIS One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just ...
HARRIET HARMAN There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making thems...
DEAN ACHESON No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making thems...
DEAN ACHESON There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
JOYCE MEYER Philip Seymour Hoffman thought he was God's gift to acting, even when he was 18. William H. Macy was...
JANA PERI No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.
BETTE MIDLER He isn't the person I thought he was. I truly have suffered from a broken heart.
JOANN SIMS Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when...
IRVIN D. YALOM But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told i...
JOHN NEWTON There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
SENECA There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. N...
GILBERT HIGHET No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
JOHN RUSKIN No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish
JOHN RUSKIN A good thought is something that makes a person feel great before others whenever he speaks to them ...
VIKRANT PARSAI No just person ever became quickly rich.
MENANDER For there exists a great and boundless aeon, whose extent no generation of angels could see, in whic...
RODOLPHE KASSER She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear...
ELIZABETH GEORGE To find the person you can truly trust, look no further than the nearest mirror.
UNKNOWN No person ever gave me nothing but God.
SUGE KNIGHT I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
BARBARA COOK No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
BRENDAN BEHAN No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Anteater -- who could have ever thought that such an animal could be so expressive? It's all in thei...
GREGORY COLBERT People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi...
CARSON MCCULLERS You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly tha...
J.K. ROWLING Ashley is a truly amazing young person who possesses profound intelligence, sharp wit and a great se...
MICHAEL CURRY No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
STEPHEN KING No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting
MURRAY KEMPTON No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
MURRAY KEMPTON The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to g...
THOMAS CARLYLE No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
JOHN RUSKIN No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
LOUIE GOHMERT The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
MARGARET ATWOOD The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves ab...
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT Nobody ever questioned your honesty. I have never thought of you as less than an honest person.
GENE CISEWSKI No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE No one ever became great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If every great person gave up, there would be no great people.
JOHN MONTELLO Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that realit...
ALDIS HODGE I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t,...
RENEE AHDIEH I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
DAVID GEFFEN There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.
ANUJ SOMANY I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.
EMILY OSMENT No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of histor...
WILLIAM HAZLITT No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ William: It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.
HUGH GRANT Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communi...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE No man ever yet became great by imitation.
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON No state legislature ever built a great university.
JAMES E. ROGERS We thought we did a really great job, the best we've ever done this dance, and 10 times better than ...
TANITH BELBIN They're only truly great who are truly good.
GEORGE CHAPMAN A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN There's no way that solar panels or windmills can do it themselves.
PATRICK MOORE A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought,...
GORDON GEE No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.
IOANA-CRISTINA CASAPU We thought Amy could win. There was no more courageous person than Amy.
GREG KRAFT In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most ...
BRIAN CHESKY When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
LILLIE LANGTRY No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic
ANN LANDERS You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...
J.K. ROWLING Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of nat...
JON MEACHAM They're only truly great who are truly good.
GEORGE CHAPMAN No question. I thought he made some great defensive plays.
GEORGE KARL I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'
MEGAN DODDS Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environm...
DONALD TRUMP, JR. Octavia was the only person in the world who truly knew him. There was no one else he really cared a...
KASS MORGAN Beware of your so called friends that always sees themselves first,before they ever see you.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
RENATA ADLER She's the strongest person I've ever seen. She's a great leader already and she keeps me going.
KIERA HARDY Scholars spend all of their energies on saying Yes and No, on criticism of what others have thought ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word e...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
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WILLIAM HAZLITT He who would see old Hoghton right
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
WILLIAM HAZLITT