Quotations Page 'D'

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

- Abraham Lincoln -

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The better part of valour is discretion.

- Shakespeare, Henry IV -

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Understand your antagonist before you answer him.

- Canning -

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We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth of Mind can heal.

- Marry Barker Eddy, Science and Health -

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I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.

- Shakespeare, Winter's Tale -

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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

- J.G.Holland -

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He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

- Lavoter, Artemire -

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I do desire we may be better strangers.

- Shakespeare, As You Like It -

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The shame is in the crime not in the punishment.

- Voltaire, Artemire -

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Rogues differ little. Each began first as a disobedient son.

- Chinese Proverb -

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With silent smiles of slow disparagement. _ Tennyson, Guinever -Of whom to be disappraised were no small praise.

- Milton, Paradise Regained -

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Dispatch is the soul of business.

- Chesterfield -

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The bost of heraldry, the pomp of power.

- Gray, Elegy -

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The bost of heraldry, the pomp of power.

- Gray, Elegy -

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

- T.Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope -

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The continual habit of dissimilation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and greatly politic.

- Bacon, Adv.of Learning -

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He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust ?

- George Eliot -

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Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

- Mme Louise Colet -

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There is a divine purpose behind every physical calamity.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan -

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