Inspirational Quotes #36

"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair."

Thomas Hobbes
English political philosopher (1588 - 1679)

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Inspirational Quotes #35

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

Marquis de Vauvenargues
(17151747  French moralist and essayist)

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Inspirational Quotes #34

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."

Sydney Smith
English essayist (1771 - 1845)

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Inspirational Quotes #33

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."
William Penn
English religious leader and colonist (1644 - 1718)

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Inspirational Quotes #32

"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
Aesop
        Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

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Inspirational Quotes #31

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing"
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2

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Inspirational Quotes #30

"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

George Bernard Shaw

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Inspirational Quotes #29

"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."
Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

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Inspirational Quotes #28

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer

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Inspirational Quotes #27

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed"
Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

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