Plutarch Quotes
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
