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“The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.”
Henry Carey Quotes Source: Translation of Dante
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“Speech is silvern, silence is golden.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Do not expect good from another's death.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Don't promise twice what you can do at once.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and
not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus
art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he
is catching you.]”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“We see not our own backs.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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“Let the worst come to the worst.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. III, ch. V)
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“The more thou stir it the worse it will be.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)
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“Make hay while the sun shines.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. V)
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“Honesty is the best policy.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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“I have other fish to fry.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV)
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“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXVII)
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“Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.”
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes Source: Don Quixote (vol. II, ch. XLIII)
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“Enough is as good as a feast.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston
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“Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Sir Gyles Goosecappe
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“The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]”
Pierre Charron Quotes Source: Las Sagesse (bk. I, ch. 3)
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“With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.”
Pierre Charron Quotes Source: Las Sagesse (bk. I, ch. 3)
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“Many a smale maketh a grate.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
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“Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 1,522), The Knight's Tale
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