Quotes for December 2951 quotes · 46 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 29: the anniversary does not move.

• A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

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  Lyman Abbott

  PoliticianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 79 reads

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• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 169 reads

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• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 88 reads

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• At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 27 votes · 47 reads

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• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 135 reads

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• Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 73 reads

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• Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 26 reads

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• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.4 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 180 reads

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• By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 119 reads

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 9 reads

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• Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 141 reads

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• Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 89 reads

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• For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 118 reads

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• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 0 reads

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• Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 41 votes · 97 reads

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• Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame, to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 122 reads

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• I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 113 reads

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• I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 125 reads

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• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 123 reads

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 186 reads

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• In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.4 · 60 votes · 83 reads

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• In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 145 reads

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• It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 21 votes · 40 reads

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 12 reads

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• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 44 votes · 136 reads

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• May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

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  Gustav Krupp

  BusinessmanGerman1870 · 19th century

  4.2 · 16 votes · 57 reads

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• Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-g

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 135 reads

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• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 64 reads

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 40 votes · 93 reads

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• Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.5 · 16 votes · 183 reads

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• Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 2 reads

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• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 57 reads

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• Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; ''I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - try to please everybody.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 59 votes · 148 reads

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• Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 176 reads

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• Responsibility is the price of greatness.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 19 reads

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• Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 141 reads

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• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 61 reads

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 177 reads

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• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 156 reads

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• The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 75 reads

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• The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 185 reads

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• When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 46 votes · 195 reads

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• When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o ta

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 18 reads

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• Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 45 reads

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• Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 37 reads

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