Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.


Charles Caleb Colton

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- All get finded in the hard way.
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They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
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Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one...
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You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
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I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to b...
CRISS JAMI
If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.
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Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others of what they know
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b...
DAN O'DONNELL
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate
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When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Sol...
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We know they have been in a love-hate relationship for a while.
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I hate to repeat myself, but every time we play Duncan, the game always turns into a stalemate. We k...
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People know what they want because they know what other people want.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. SCHUMACHER
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
BENZEL STERNAN
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.
JODI PICOULT
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
ACE FREHLEY
Tell me what you know."
"I'm awake and you're not pancakes.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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You know what they say, if you love something, set it free.
JENNIFER E. SMITH
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
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Sometimes they don't know what they don't know. You put yourself in a position to appease a group th...
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So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES
You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
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They know what they were doing.
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They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what – those flaws almost made them greater.
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This was not right, we need to know that these men will pay for what they do.
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People dont care what you know until they know what you care
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Bottom line, know what they want and know how they want it.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominan...
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They didn't know what they were doing.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
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We all want to be revered for our obsession. Most are not revered because they do not know what they...
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What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
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If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
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He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.
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What we don't know can't hurt us.
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The first thing I would do is try to figure out why men think the way they think. I would love to kn...
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Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." But do they deserve fo...
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You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.
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We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quota...
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They know what they're doing.
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure...
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school....
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted an...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most en...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must fi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are bot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON