18th century

Voltaire

Voltaire quote: “Fear follows crime and is its punishment….”

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Education & learning quotes

Edmund Burke quote: “Education is the cheap defense of nations.”

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Work quotes

Voltaire quote: “Better is the enemy of good….”

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Artist

Samuel Lover quote: “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak…”

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Business quotes

Voltaire quote: “Business is the salt of life.”

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Life quotes

John Dryden quote: “Shame on the body for breaking down…”

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Quotes about human nature

Voltaire quote: “Everything’s fine today — that is our illusion.”

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Business quotes

Edmund Burke quote: “Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke quote: “Tyrants seldom want pretexts….”

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Catherine II

Catherine II quote: “Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing….”

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Richard Whately

Richard Whately quote: “Happiness is no laughing matter….”

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke quote: “Custom reconciles us to everything….”

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Voltaire

Voltaire quote: “Common sense is not so common….”

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke quote: “Beauty is the promise of happiness….”

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John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun quote: “Beware the wrath of a patient adversary….”

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Voltaire

Voltaire quote: “A witty saying proves nothing….”

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Motivational & inspirational quotes

John Dryden quote: “For they conquer who believe they can…”

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Quotes about human nature

Mary Wollstonecraft quote: “Women are systematically degraded by receiving…”

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Government quotes

Henry Fielding quote: “Where the law ends, tyranny begins.”

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Quotes about books & reading

Mary Wortley quote: “No entertainment is so cheap as reading…”

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Happy & positive quotes

Lord Byron quote: “Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim…”

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Quotes about human nature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: “The unnatural: that, too, is natural.”

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Life quotes

Lord Byron quote: “Truth is always strange — stranger than fiction.”

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Quotes about politics

John Dryden quote: “They that possess the prince possess the…”

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Quotes about human nature

Matthew Prior quote: “It takes two to quarrel, but only…”

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John Dryden

John Dryden quote: “Beware the fury of a patient man…”

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Life quotes

Lord Byron quote: “‘Tis very certain the desire of life…”

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Quotes about books & reading

John Dryden quote: “Words are but pictures of our thoughts…”

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Death quotes

Lord Byron quote: “They never fail who die in a…”

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Life quotes

Joseph Addison quote: “Our real blessings often appear to us…”

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