Quotations Page 'A'

Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long.

- G.B.Shaw -

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Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory.

- Junius -

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Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.

- Goethe -

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There is no man who hath not some interesting association.

- Alison -

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No undevout astronomer is mad.

- Young, Essays on Atheism -

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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

- Bacon, Essays on Atheism -

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By night an atheist shall belive in God.

- Young -

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The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.

- Old Testament, Psalms -

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Attention makes the genius: all learning, fancy sincere, and skill depend upon it.

- Wilmon -

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Authority forgets a dying king.

- Tennyson, The Passingn Arthur -

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Though authority be stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.

- Shakespeare, Winte's Tail -

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The highest duty is to respect authority.

- Pope Leo XII -

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

- Johnson, Remark -

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The chief glory of every people arise from its authors.

- Johnson -

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The author himself is the best judge for his performance.

- Gibbon, Memories of My Life andWritings -

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When chill November's surely blast.Made fields and forests bare.

- Robert Burns, Man was made to Mourn -

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Season of mist and mellow fruitlessness.

- Keats -

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Avarice is the vice of declining years.

- Bancroft -

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Avarice, the spur of industry.

- Thomas Hughes, Essays of Civil Liberty -

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In aeronautics one finds new things only by looking for them.

- Clerve -

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