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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.


Samuel Butler

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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL What do people gain from lying? besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and tho...
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PAULO COELHO "Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell." - Patsy Cline
PATSY CLINE There are only two kinds of people in this world; those who have a conscience and those who do not.
P.A. SPEERS It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
SAINT AMBROSE For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Look...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I wish people would not use him as a means to justify criticism of Damien Hirst and others. There is...
KAREN WRIGHT Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intellige...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.
ANON. Success comes to those who become success conscience. Failure comes to those who indifferntly allow ...
NAPOLEON HILL In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to d...
JOHN GREEN A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those wh...
JIM ROHN It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
WILLIAM HAZLITT In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH SR. When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
HERMAN WOUK Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
PROVERB Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the...
HENRY WARD BEECHER ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain...
THOMAS BROWNE Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-b...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Fulfill your ministry with a good conscience and do not allow anyone to throw you off your path
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JOSEPH ROSS Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo...
THOR HEYERDAHL Great things come to those who wait… best things come to those who get off their ass and do anythi...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion...
MOLIERE A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and w...
C.K. KELLY MARTIN A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun ...
GEORGE HERBERT ...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to le...
BRANDON SANDERSON It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
UNKNOWN Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enou...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
ARABIC PROVERB Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
ARABIAN PROVERBS Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
ARABIAN PROVERB And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to under...
DAN SIMMONS I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.
STEPHENIE MEYER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
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SOURCE UNKNOWN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
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SANDRA K. COOK Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
ANGELA MONET Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
GERMAINE DE STAëL Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY Those who know me know me well enough to know what I will and will not do. Those who don't obviously...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do...
WILLIAM COBBETT The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do...
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
OSCAR WILDE It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
OSCAR WILDE Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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