Great short quotes - Page 121

Benjamin Franklin, ?

To be proud of virtue is to poison …

13 Oct , 2011  

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin, ? , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be really great in little things…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Great short quote and quotation by: Harriet Beecher Stowe , US abolitionist & novelist (1811 – 1896)

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Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

To be silent the whole day long, se…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi , US […]

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To be stupid, selfish, and have goo…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Great short quote and quotation by: Gustave Flaubert , French realist novelist (1821 – 1880)

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Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have goo…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Great short quote and quotation by: Gustave Flaubert , French realist novelist (1821 – 1880)

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To be what we are, and to become wh…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

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To be what we are, and to become wh…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

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To be willing to die for an idea is…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. Great short quote and quotation by: Anatole France , French novelist (1844 – 1924)

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To be without some of the things yo…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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To be worn out is to be renewed….

13 Oct , 2011  

To be worn out is to be renewed. Great short quote and quotation by: Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu , Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

E.e. cummings

To be yourself in a world that is d…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else–is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight. Great short quote and quotation by: e.e. cummings ,

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William Ralph Inge, 1920

To become a popular religion, it is…

13 Oct , 2011  

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy. Great short quote and quotation by: William Ralph Inge, 1920 , English author & Anglican prelate (1860 – 1954)

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