Notable People |
William Shakespeare |
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The better part of valor is discretion. |
William Shakespeare |
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. |
William Shakespeare |
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. |
William Shakespeare |
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. [King Henry V] |
William Shakespeare |
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. |
William Shakespeare |
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. |
William Shakespeare |
Horatio Nelson |
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Thank God. I have done my duty. [Last words] |
Horatio Nelson |
Ludwig von Beethoven |
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Only the artist, or the free scholar, carries his happiness within him. |
Ludwig von Beethoven |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Oscar Wilde |
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. |
Oscar Wilde |
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. |
Oscar Wilde |
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. |
Oscar Wilde |
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. |
Oscar Wilde |
Michelangelo |
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Grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. |
Michelangelo |
Winston Churchill |
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Never give in, never, never, never – in nothing great or small, large or petty – never give in except in conviction of honor and good sense. |
Winston Churchill |
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. |
Winston Churchill |
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. |
Winston Churchill |
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. |
Winston Churchill |
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. |
Winston Churchill |
Hans Christian Anderson |
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To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness. |
Hans Anderson |
Johann Goethe |
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A useless life is an early death. |
Johann Goethe |
Charles Dickens |
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. |
Charles Dickens |
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
Samuel Johnson |
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The true measure of a person is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no benefit. |
Samuel Johnson |
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. |
Samuel Johnson |
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. |
Samuel Johnson |
John Ruskin |
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. |
John Ruskin |
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. |
John Ruskin |
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. |
John Ruskin |
Nelson Mandela |
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. |
Nelson Mandela |
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. |
Nelson Mandela |
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. |
Nelson Mandela |
It always seems impossible until its done. |
Nelson Mandela |
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere. |
Nelson Mandela |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Lord Byron |
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Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. |
Lord Byron |
There is no instinct like that of the heart. |
Lord Byron |
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at? |
Lord Byron |
Napolean Bonaparte |
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Napolean Bonaparte |
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. |
Napolean Bonaparte |
Impossible is a word to be found in the dictionary of fools. |
Napolean Bonaparte |
Ability is nothing without opportunity. |
Napolean Bonaparte |
Charles Darwin |
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. |
Charles Darwin |
Immanuel Kant |
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. |
Immanuel Kant |
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. |
Immanuel Kant |
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. |
Immanuel Kant |
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. |
Immanuel Kant |
To be is to do. |
Immanuel Kant |
Issac Newton |
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges. |
Issac Newton |
To every reaction there is always opposed an equal reaction. |
Issac Newton |
Tact is the act of making a point without making an enemy. |
Issac Newton |
To me there has never been a higher source of earthy honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. |
Issac Newton |
Sophie Scholl |
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Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone. |
Sophie Scholl |