Thomas Babington Famous Quotes



Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."


Thomas Babington Quotations






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"Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels."
Joan Walsh Anglund

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
Henry Ford

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Graham Swing away Merrill. Merrill... swing away.
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
Sydney J Harris

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
Thomas Paine

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Thomas Huxley

"But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive."
John Milton

"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion."
Margaret Cho