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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Marcus Tullius Cicero 5.0000 average rating  
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness." Grover Cleveland 4.5714 average rating  
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continunace." Frank Moore Colby 5.0000 average rating  
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.8889 average rating  
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1.0000 average rating  
"Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5.0000 average rating  
"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building." Robert J. Collier 4.2143 average rating  
"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power." Charles Caleb Colton  
"The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy." Charles Caleb Colton 4.5000 average rating  
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." Charles Caleb Colton 4.6667 average rating  
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Confucius 4.8182 average rating  
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius 4.8824 average rating  
"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves." Confucius 4.7143 average rating  
"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." Confucius 5.0000 average rating  
"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married." Cyril Connolley 4.5000 average rating  
"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it." James Scott "Jimmy" Connors 4.6667 average rating  
"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." Joseph Conrad 4.0000 average rating  
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease." John Corry 3.3333 average rating  
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