Quotes for November 1848 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 18: the anniversary does not move.

• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.2 · 30 votes · 171 reads

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• All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 132 reads

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• America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 109 reads

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 191 reads

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• Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 27 reads

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• Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 56 reads

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• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 199 reads

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• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 71 reads

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• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 107 reads

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• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 142 reads

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 41 reads

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• Hate is more lasting than dislike.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 145 reads

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• I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 39 reads

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 165 reads

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• If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 163 reads

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• In charity there is no excess.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 115 reads

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• In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 2 reads

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• It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 128 reads

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.1 · 46 votes · 70 reads

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• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.0 · 33 votes · 39 reads

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• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 41 reads

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• Love is a great beautifier.

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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 107 reads

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• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will, his personal responsibility.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 197 reads

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• Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 123 reads

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• Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 107 reads

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• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.9 · 62 votes · 30 reads

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  

  Edgar Degas

  PainterFrench1834 · 19th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 80 reads

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• Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 57 reads

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• Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 53 reads

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• Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, mo

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 40 votes · 50 reads

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• Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 146 reads

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• The actual well seen is ideal.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 10 reads

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 118 reads

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• The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 8 reads

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• The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 177 reads

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 179 reads

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• The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 9 reads

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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 170 reads

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• Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 153 reads

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• Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 119 reads

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• To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intentio

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 22 reads

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• Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.2 · 47 votes · 12 reads

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 148 reads

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• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 153 reads

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• We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 162 reads

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• What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 131 reads

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