“ True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
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“ God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe. ”
- James I of England- Copy
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“ Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. - King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. - King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do. ”
- Jose Maria Peman- Copy
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“ Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. ”
- Max Weber- Copy
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“ The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God. ”
- William Law- Copy
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“ The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss! ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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