Lesson Quotes
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If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
George Eliot
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New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
Alison Fell
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You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again—how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality.
Edith Hahn Beer
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
George Chakiris
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Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.
Elizabeth Keckley
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
George Bernard Shaw
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A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
Ernst Bacon
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921
Andrei Grechko
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The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.
Ben Robertson
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However much Rome may be in the habit of speaking and writing, for my own part, I shall give these libellers a lesson in good manners
Cesare Borgia
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned.
Alicia Keys
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Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.
Allison Holker
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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Lord Byron
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
Patrick Ness
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It's only a lesson if you learned from it
Cardale Jones
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
Ernest Hemingway
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
Rose Tremain
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I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
Marilyn Monroe