Quotes for September 1848 quotes · 43 authors

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

• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 140 reads

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 14 reads

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• Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 132 reads

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• Character is a journey, not a destination.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 25 reads

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 15 reads

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• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable tie

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 69 reads

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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 189 reads

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• Habits change into character.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 59 votes · 15 reads

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• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 128 reads

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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 121 reads

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• I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 39 reads

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• I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 146 reads

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• In his private heart no man much respects himself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 166 reads

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• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 104 reads

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• It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, Physicss in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 197 reads

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• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 129 reads

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 168 reads

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, ca

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 128 reads

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• Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 189 reads

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• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 3 reads

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• Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 182 reads

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 188 reads

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• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 145 reads

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 161 reads

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training beg

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 138 reads

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• Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 102 reads

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• Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 114 reads

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• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.0 · 40 votes · 194 reads

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• Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 90 reads

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• Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 187 reads

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 102 reads

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• The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.2 · 10 votes · 196 reads

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• The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 36 reads

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• The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no pre

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 142 reads

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• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 31 reads

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 77 reads

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• There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...

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  Jean Giraudoux

  NovelistFrench1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 79 reads

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• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 20 reads

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• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 191 reads

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• To spend life for something which outlasts it.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 182 reads

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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 185 reads

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• When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 104 reads

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• Who saves his country violates no law.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 169 reads

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• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.3 · 28 votes · 127 reads

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• You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbour.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 155 reads

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• You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 168 reads

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