Quotes for September 1550 quotes · 46 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

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  Alexis Carrel

  ScientistFrench1873 · 19th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 75 reads

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• A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 9 votes · 64 reads

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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 168 reads

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 197 reads

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• A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 64 reads

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• A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 137 reads

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• All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 12 votes · 62 reads

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 147 reads

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• And say my glory was I had such friends.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 43 reads

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 15 reads

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• As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 37 reads

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• Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 115 reads

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• Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 147 reads

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 141 reads

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• Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 140 reads

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• From politics it was an easy step to silence.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 108 reads

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 3 reads

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• God made the country and man made the town.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 117 reads

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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 125 reads

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• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 79 reads

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• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 169 reads

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 142 reads

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• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 73 reads

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• It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 148 reads

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• Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 18 reads

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• Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 24 reads

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• Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 183 reads

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• Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 64 reads

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• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 10 reads

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• No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 55 votes · 120 reads

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• O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 129 reads

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• One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 156 reads

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• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 18 votes · 27 reads

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• Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract rig

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 155 reads

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• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 135 reads

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• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 61 reads

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• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 154 reads

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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 123 reads

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• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 138 reads

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• There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 45 votes · 0 reads

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• There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 46 votes · 72 reads

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• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 43 votes · 114 reads

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• There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.7 · 5 votes · 74 reads

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• To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 92 reads

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• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 101 reads

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears t

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 105 reads

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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.4 · 5 votes · 111 reads

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 82 reads

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• You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 61 votes · 156 reads

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