Quotations Page 'A'
Sunday, 06 October 2024
Death comes to allBut great achievents raise a monumentWhich shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Georgius Fabricus -
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Have patience with the jealousies and petulances of actors, for their hour is their eternity.
- Richard Garnett, Ibid Preface -
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men,After a well graced actor leaves the stage,Are idly bent on him that enters next,Thinking his rattle to be tedious. - William Shakespeare, IbidOn the stage he was natural, simple, affecting :'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
- Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation -
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Every noble acquisition is attended with risks; he who fears to encounter the one, must not expect to obtain the other.
- Metastasio -
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Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
- Thomas Fuller -
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
- Alexander Smith -
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Think in the morning, act in the noon , eat in the evening, sleep in the night.
- William Blake -
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Locke -
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The actions of men are like the index to a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.
- Thomas -
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley -
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech before the Amiltion Club Chicago -
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Actios are our; their consequences belong to heaven.
- Sir P.Francis -
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
- Shakespeare, KingJohn -
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Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose :Strange his first sleep should be his last repose.
- Anon, The Consequences -
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In Adam's fallWe sinned all
- New England Printer -
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God made him seed.That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.
- Rudyard Kipling, Ibid -
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She gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- John Milton -
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So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
- William Shakespeare, Ibid -
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She gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- John Milton -
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