Quotes for August 340 quotes · 35 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 3: the anniversary does not move.

• … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  3.6 · 10 votes · 136 reads

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 32 reads

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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 66 reads

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty, necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 101 reads

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• Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 23 reads

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• Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.2 · 41 votes · 38 reads

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• Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 170 reads

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• Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 86 reads

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• He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.9 · 24 votes · 92 reads

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.2 · 49 votes · 33 reads

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 152 reads

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• Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 178 reads

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• I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 134 reads

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• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 95 reads

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• I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 28 reads

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

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  Wallace Stevens

  PoetAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 118 reads

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• It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 36 votes · 139 reads

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• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 180 reads

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• Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 97 reads

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• Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.9 · 27 votes · 146 reads

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• Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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• Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 21 reads

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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.2 · 59 votes · 18 reads

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• Society is founded upon cloth.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 94 reads

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• Thank Heaven! the crisis -The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last -, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 44 reads

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• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 89 reads

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  

  Henri Bergson

  PhilosopherFrench1859 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 20 reads

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• The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 57 votes · 94 reads

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• The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 197 reads

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• The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 93 reads

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 151 reads

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• There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 165 reads

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• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.0 · 43 votes · 109 reads

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• To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 44 votes · 166 reads

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• We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 93 reads

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• We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 150 reads

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• When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 153 reads

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• When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 81 reads

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• Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 126 reads

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