William Howard Taft (4)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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Oliver Tambo (2)
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Junichiro Tanizaki (2)
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
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Torquato Tasso (4)
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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Allen Tate (3)
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
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A. J. P. Taylor (2)
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Jeremy Taylor (8)
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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Edwin Way Teale (3)
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
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William Temple (6)
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
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Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (8)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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U Thant (3)
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Dylan Thomas (3)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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Lewis Thomas (3)
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
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Dorothy Thompson (3)
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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Henry David Thoreau (117)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Edward Thorndike (4)
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
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James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Gene Tierney (12)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Leo Tolstoy (21)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Clyde Tombaugh (2)
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
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Robert Toombs (2)
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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Peter Tosh (2)
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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Arnold J. Toynbee (7)
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
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G. M. Trevelyan (3)
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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Leon Trotsky (3)
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Paul Tsongas (2)
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
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Barbara Tuchman (4)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Benjamin Tucker (2)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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Ivan Turgenev (3)
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Lana Turner (6)
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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Thomas Tusser (4)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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