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"Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor." John Anthony Ciardi 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." Marcus Tullius Cicero 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?" Marcus Tullius Cicero 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism." Frank A. Clark 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C(harles) Clarke 4.6316 average rating Rate this Quote
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud 4.5333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at." Frank Moore Colby 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rate this Quote
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy." Charles Caleb Colton 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." Charles Caleb Colton 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." Edwin Conklin 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad 4.2857 average rating Rate this Quote
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." Joseph Conrad 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds." Joseph Conrad Rate this Quote
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence." Barbara Cook 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." Charles Horton Cooley Rate this Quote
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