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“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
abgeglattet sind.]”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes Source: Titan (zykel 26)
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“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
[Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Epistles (76)
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“We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square
person has squeezed himself into the round hole.”
Sydney Smith Quotes Source: Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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“Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the
giants themselves.”
Didacus Stella Quotes Source: Lucan (vol. II, 10)
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“Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: The Flowers
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“The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de
l'habilete dans les bons.]”
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues Quotes Source: Reflexions (CIII)
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“They are able because they think they are able.
[Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (V, 231)
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“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”
Homer Quotes |
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“The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.”
Arthur Guiterman Quotes |
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“If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.”
Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes |
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“People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.”
Bob Edwards Quotes |
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“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.”
Casey Stengel Quotes |
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“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes |
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“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”
George Herbert Quotes |
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“If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.”
Glenn Ford Quotes |
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“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
Henry Ford Quotes |
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“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Karl Marx Quotes |
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“When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.”
Thomas Fuller, M.D. Quotes |
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“There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.”
Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”
John Henry Newman Quotes |
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.”
La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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