- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
- Good Breeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020