To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Great short quote and quotation by: Abraham Lincoln , 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. Great short quote and quotation by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox ,
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: […]
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To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? Great short quote and quotation by: Anaximenes ,
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Dickens , English novelist (1812 – 1870)
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. Great short quote and quotation by: Jimmy Johnson ,
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Great short quote and quotation by: Elie Wiesel , US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 – )
William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects […]
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Ten
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one. Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Ten ,