Quotes for August 1749 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 17: the anniversary does not move.

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 61 reads

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• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 148 reads

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• All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 10 votes · 151 reads

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• As a person is so must you humor them.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 29 reads

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• Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 195 reads

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• Decision making is the specific executive task.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 38 reads

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 120 reads

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• Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 86 reads

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• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 163 reads

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 86 reads

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• Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 169 reads

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• Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 55 reads

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• I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 42 votes · 109 reads

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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 101 reads

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• I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 19 reads

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• If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.2 · 39 votes · 159 reads

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 86 reads

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• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 47 reads

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• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 165 reads

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• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.0 · 40 votes · 52 reads

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• Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 76 reads

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• My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 131 reads

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• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.4 · 27 votes · 129 reads

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• Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams -can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 73 reads

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• Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 132 reads

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• Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.4 · 20 votes · 38 reads

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• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 142 reads

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• She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 48 votes · 145 reads

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• Since when was genius found respectable?

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 31 reads

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 77 reads

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• Study the past if you would divine the future.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 54 votes · 30 reads

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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 102 reads

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• The fear of death is worse than death.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 64 reads

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• The most essential gift for a good Writeris a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 150 reads

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• The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 116 reads

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• The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 7 votes · 3 reads

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 35 reads

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• The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 105 reads

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• The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 74 reads

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• There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 104 reads

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• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 186 reads

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 171 reads

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• We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.5 · 60 votes · 10 reads

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• What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 195 reads

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• When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.4 · 59 votes · 102 reads

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• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 91 reads

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• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 53 votes · 61 reads

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• You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 120 reads

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