Thousand Quotes
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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is
too few.
William Wordsworth
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
Patrick Henry
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No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
Morris West
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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
Reggie Jackson
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
Wernher von Braun
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King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
Kaye Gibbons
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Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.
Jim Gaffigan
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A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.
Wang Wei
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The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
Wumen Huikai
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Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.
William Braithwaite
