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Joseph Addison
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Jim Bishop
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
John Locke
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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J Danforth Quayle
... I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
J Danforth Quayle
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.
J Danforth Quayle
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
J Danforth Quayle
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
J Danforth Quayle
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
J Danforth Quayle
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
J Tolkein
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
J. A. Spender
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
J. Arthur Lewis
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. B. Priestley
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
J. B. Yeats
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.
J. Bartlett Brebne
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebne
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bronowski
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure
J. Brotherton
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
J. C. Penny
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
J. C. Watts
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
J. C. Watts
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
J. D. Salinger
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. Salinger
Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
J. D. Salinger
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
J. D. Salinger
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Watson, "The
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
J. Deville
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
J. Donald Wlters
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Edgar Hoover
I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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