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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes." Alexander Hamilton 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." John W. Hanley 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." Elizabeth Hardwick 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest truths are the simplest." Augustus W. Hare Rate this Quote
"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." Chitto Harjo 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage." Sydney J. Harris 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." Václav Havel 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." Nathaniel Hawthorne 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." Louise Hay 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love." William Hazlitt 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." William Hazlitt 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No really great man ever thought himself so." William Hazlitt Rate this Quote
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." William Hazlitt 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist." Piet Hein 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith." Heinrich Heine 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Miller Hemingway 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." Ernest Miller Hemingway 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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