Quotations Page 'E'

He conquers who endures.

- Presius -

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It is impossible for any man not to have some enemies.

- Lord Chesterfield, Advice to His Son -

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There is no little enemy.

- Franklin -

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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

- M.Arnold -

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The world belongs to energetic.

- Emerson -

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

- Emerson -

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

- Blair -

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The shining light that shineth more and more upto the perfect day.

- Proverb -

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Human nature is fundamentally good, and the spread of enlightenment will abolish all wrong.

- S.Radhakrishnan, Eastern Religion and Western Thought -

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Enmities always keep pace and are interwoven with friendship.

- Plutarch, On Friendship -

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Kites rise against not with the wind - no man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead claim.

- John Neal -

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For one of the pleasures of having a routIs the pleasure of having it over.

- Hood, Kilmansegg -

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The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

- Nerval -

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Nothing great was achived without enthusiasm.

- Emerson, Circles -

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The prudent man may direct state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it or ruins.

- Lord Lytton, Rienzi -

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Envy has no other quality but of detracting from virtue.

- Livy -

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The most anti-social and obvious of all passions, envy.

- J.S.Mill, Liberty -

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It is better to be envied than pitied.

- Herodotus -

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He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure and for such a tomb might content to die.

- Lamb, Roast Pig -

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