Quotations Page 'G'

Great genius have the shortest biographics.

- Emerson -

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Genius must be born, it can never be taught.

- Dryden -

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How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants virtue.

- Fuller -

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There is no character which a low - minded man so much mistrusts as that of a gentleman.

- Thackeray, Vanity Fair -

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When Adam delved and Eve spanWho was then the gentleman ?

- John Ball -

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Your gentleness shall forceMore than your force to move us to gentleness.

- Shakespeare, As You Like it -

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Nothing is strong as gentleness : nothing so gentle as real strength.

- Francis De Sales -

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I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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All argument is against it but all belief is for it.

- Johnson -

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On the Appearaance of Men's Spirits after Death.

- Johnson -

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There were giant in the earth in those days.

- Old Testament, Genesis -

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I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.

- Goathe -

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For gifts are scorned where givers are despised.

- Dryden, Hind and Panther -

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For to the noble mind.Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove mankind.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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Men seldom make passes.At girls who wear glasses.

- Dorothy Parker, News Item -

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What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice.

- Southey -

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An unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised.

- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice -

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Glory follows virtue like its shadow.

- Cicero -

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What Price Glory?

- Maxwell Anderson -

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