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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.


Walter Scott

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...
JANE AUSTEN Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW WILSON All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW T. WILSON You can't deal with being odd?
...

Become like them...

Become drug delear...
DEYTH BANGER All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
ALBERT CAMUS They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth...
MARGARET BUTLER I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who ar...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the ave...
BOONE PICKENS To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their...
ROBERT PURVIS The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot...
UNKNOWN The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of t...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB Yeah, I would have liked to have had the ball in my hand, but that's the not how the pages turned.
TASHA HUMPHREY I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...
JANE AUSTEN Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDING Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
JAMES J. HILL I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - th...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their m...
OSCAR WILDE We have not turned down anything, and that's just it, ... Almost everybody that has asked for a proc...
FRANK BRUNO H.A.N.D = H-ave A N-ice D-ay!
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I'...
JOHN GOULD All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN On the other hand, a lot of horses have been turned out for pasture and unfortunately forgotten.
ED WEBER If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth ...
WILLIAM COWPER The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...
LYSANDER SPOONER Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything wort...
GREG BOYLE Have courage to follow your own intuition & conviction. On the other hand, some people who are on th...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of ...
ANNA HOWARD SHAW Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, ...
CHARLES E. WILSON It's probably my fault that the tide turned right there. I took my own team out of the game. You jus...
BRAD HEMPHILL I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have be...
JOHN FORSYTHE When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . ...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE If things emerge reasonably well in Gaza, then the door is open for further moves, wider decisions, ...
SHIMON PERES I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from th...
MANDY PATINKIN If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li...
ALBERT CAMUS Few men have been admired by their own domestics
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay a...
CHIEF SEATTLE Those men have never done anything in their lives except stare at the clouds and the stars. The Indi...
WARREN EYSTER 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 2...
RICHARD GOUGH Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
UNKNOWN Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain ...
ERIC HOFFER My heart goes out to those people who for years have had the door slammed in their face. All they wa...
DENA HARTLEY We haven't had even six people who have felt comfortable doing it on their own.
JULIE JONES Have had a very narrow escape. Baggage all lost have not sufficient money in hand.
H.A. REY Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had:...
DANIEL GREENBERG Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow...
JEAN JACQUES GAUTIER How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE [Caprio is chief judge of the Providence Municipal Court and chairman of the state Board of Governor...
FRANK CAPRIO They have every reason to have all the confidence in the world in themselves. They came out against ...
ADRIAN BOYARSKY I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potent...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
EMMA SMITH Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang...
KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ...
EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even...
OSCAR WILDE You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ev...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES Self perception self belief makes you the person of self worth. If you have conviction & courage you...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men t...
CLARENCE DARROW When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, ...
ALICE HAMILTON This new position allows me to continue to serve my country and help the many people who have had th...
DONALD POWELL I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special ...
THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH I already get calls all the time from people who have been turned away by their doctors. This is a v...
JENNY PIZER Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies
FRANK GELETT BURGESS I do recall that, out in Aurora, there had been a small corps of German and Central European immigra...
DEREK MOORE The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity an...
ROY L. SMITH It might be worth considering . . . for some women who, within just the last year or two, have had l...
SARAH DARBY When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn...
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH I come in contact with mixed-up people, young men and women caught in the anguish of their own unpre...
BILLY GRAHAM The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a cer...
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character.
MEL CROUCHER Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
PATTI SMITH Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own bus...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
CHIEF JOSEPH What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marr...
BURGESS OWENS [Opponents had dubbed her] Mean Jean ... their commander in chief.
ROB PORTMAN Both teams turned in some great times and distances, especially for the first meet. Once the season ...
BRIAN CATHERMAN Those who have not shown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the fut...
GURDJIEFF A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand...
JOHN BYROM

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SIR WALTER SCOTT We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Do what you should, not what you may.
SIR WALTER SCOTT After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
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SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
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SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wo...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
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SIR WALTER SCOTT I am enamoured of my journal
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SIR WALTER SCOTT True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
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SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT