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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Rather, Often, Labor, Little, Live

• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Judgement

• It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

  Terry Pratchett

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Eyes, Fact, Often, Living, Die

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Start, Beginning, Often

• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Often

• From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and ‘Top Model’, but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

  Tyra Banks

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Moment, Private, Until, Often

• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility, Pride, Often

• Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Art

  Tags in World, Action, Fame, Repeat, Often

• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Absurd, Most, Often, Maturity

• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Life, Youth

  Tags in Attain, Escapes, Season, Often

• It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, ‘Life and death issues don’t come along that often, thank God, so don’t treat everything like it’s life or death. Go easier.’

  Thomas Arnold

  Topics in Death, God, Life

  Tags in Friend, Like, Often

• The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, People, Most, Often, Thinking

• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  Renata Adler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boredom, Cruel, People, Time, Unless, Often

• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Passion, Fact, Often, Inspiration

• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accept, Often, Little

• Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

  Robert Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Waste, Often

• Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

  René Descartes

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Often, Sorrow

• Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in World, Pleasure, Reason, Often

• The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

  Roy H. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Improved, Often

• Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

  Roy H. Williams

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Young, Often