“ Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. ”
- John Heywood- Copy
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“ Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. ”
- Robert Manning- Copy
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“ Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ His announcement was so typically Chuck — he did it with grace and dignity and intelligence,... Wolf Blitzer Reports. ”
- Tom Selleck- Copy
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“ His great strength was not his charisma, as many commonly thought, but that he knew exactly what he could do and what he could not do. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
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“ Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. ”
- John King- Copy
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“ The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ”
- Humphry Davy- Copy
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“ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. ”
- Ayumi Hamasaki- Copy
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“ A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ”
- Kurt Lewin- Copy
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“ Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one. ”
- Gregory Bateson- Copy
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“ All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire. ”
- S. G. Tallentyre- Copy
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“ Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
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“ I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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