Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Two Quotes

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Two Quotes , World Quotes

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Real Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

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Tags : Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes , Two Quotes , Islam Quotes

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Two Quotes

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.

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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Two Quotes , Useless Quotes

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Blessing Quotes , Two Quotes

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Two Quotes , Three Quotes

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

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Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Two Quotes , Doe Quotes

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

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