“ Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. ”
- Phaedrus- Copy
- 3.3K
“ No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excell. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 130
“ The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ”
- Crystal Eastman- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged — where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ”
- Ninette De Valois- Copy
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“ So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? ”
- Käthe Kollwitz- Copy
- 2K
“ Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. ”
- Charles Eames- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written… ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
- 191
“ I think one of the conclusions that many Catholics drew from the Second Vatican Council is there're just a lot fewer mortal sins than there used to be. So we don't really have to confess them, and we can make a good act of contrition, as we used to say, and receive communion, and it's fine. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
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“ It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself. ”
- Henry L. Stimson- Copy
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“ I listened carefully to their concerns about the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of America's heroes. We will carefully review the questions and information they presented, and I will be in touch with them as soon as the review is complete. ”
- Janet Reno- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 517
“ Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ”
- Sally Poplin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ”
- Horace- Copy
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“ A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ”
- Pearl Strachan Hurd- Copy
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