#grave

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#grave #lead #paths

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. ↗

— Joseph Hall

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener. ↗

— Jared Harris

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Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#been #better #buried #ever #every

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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