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| Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. | Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist |
| He knows so little and knows it so fluently. | Ellen Glasgow | 1874-1945, American Novelist |
| No barber shaves so close but another finds his work. | English Proverb | Sayings of British Origin |
| Don't halt before you are lame. | English Proverb | Sayings of British Origin |
| No great thing is created suddenly. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| Don't go through life, grow through life. | Eric Butterworth | |
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| A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. | Eric Lindros | 1973-, Canadian Hockey Player |
| One learns to itch where one can scratch. | Ernest Bramah | American Writer |
| The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. | Ernest Hello | |
| That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
| The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. | Ernest Renan | 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar |
| Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person | Ethel Watts Mumford | 1878-1940, American Novelist, Humor Writer |
| The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. | EugLne Delacroix | 1798-1863, French Artist |
| To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. | Euripides | BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet |
| 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought where from we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
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| Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. | Florence Scovel Shinn | American Artist, Metaphysics Teacher, Author |
| None of us really pushes hard enough. | Fran Tarkenton | American Football Player, Businessman, Corporate Consultant, Author |
| Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Knowledge is power. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Knowledge and human power are synonymous. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. | Francis Picabia | 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet |
| A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. | Francis Picabia | 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet |
| Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. | Francis Picabia | 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet |
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| To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. | Francis Yeats Brown | |
| To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. | Frank A. Clark | |
| Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately. | Frank Dane | |
| When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA |
| I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. | Franklin P. Adams | 1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist |
| I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. | Franz Kafka | 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer |
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| It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. | Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786), | |
| If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once. | Frederick Smith | American Businessman, Founder of Federal Express |
| Fear is a great inventor. | French Proverb | Sayings of French Origin |
| Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. | Friedrich Wasiman | |
| Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. | Gail Hamilton | 1833-1896, American Writer, Humorist |
| When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. | Geoffrey F. Fisher | 1887-1972, British Archbishop of Canterbury |
| There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Persevere and get it done. | George Allen | American Football Coach |
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