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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whol…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English critic & poet (1772 – 1834)

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What is conservativism? Is it not t…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Great short quote and quotation by: Abraham Lincoln , 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

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What is grace? It is the inspiratio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls “grace” from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call “rigtheousness.” Great short quote and […]

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What is left when honor is lost?…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is left when honor is lost? Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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What is written without effort is i…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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What is virtue but the trades union…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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What is the matter with the poor is…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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What is the first business of one w…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

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What is written without effort is i…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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What lies behind us and what lies a…

15 Feb , 2011  

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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What is youth except a man or a wom…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Great short quote and quotation by: Evelyn Waugh , English novelist & satirist (1903 – 1966)

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What lies behind us and what lies b…

15 Feb , 2011  

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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