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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.
Isaac Ambrose
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for bliss. It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
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A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
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There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
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LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
Bert Ambrose
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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