Their silence is sufficient praise. Great short quote and quotation by: Terence , Roman comic dramatist (185 BC – 159 BC)
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Kaspar Lavater ,
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. Great short quote and quotation by: George D. Prentice ,
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There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks […]
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. Great short quote and quotation by: Ernest Hello ,
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. […]
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There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Great short quote and quotation by: Pablo Picasso , Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)
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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands. Great short quote and quotation by: Sacha Guitry , (1885 – 1957)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)