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We owe a deep debt of gratitude to …

15 Feb , 2011  

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

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We shall never cease from explorati…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

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T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

We shall not cease from exploration…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

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T.S. Eliott

We shall not cease from our explora…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Great short quote and quotation by: T.S. Eliott ,

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T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

We shall not cease from exploration…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

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T. S Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started– and know the place for the first time. Great short quote and quotation by: T. S Eliot ,

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T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from our explora…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

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Wendell Phillips

What is defeat? Nothing but educati…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. Great short quote and quotation by: Wendell Phillips , US abolitionist (1811 – 1884)

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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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Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets

What we hope ever to do with ease w…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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When a woman marries again, it is b…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – […]

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Daniel Defoe

When kings the sword of justice fir…

15 Feb , 2011  

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. Great short quote and quotation by: Daniel Defoe ,

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