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Quote by Willa Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. – Willa Cather

Other quotes by Willa Cather

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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Curmudgeonesque
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Willa Cather
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. – Willa Cather

Category:
Talent
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Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. – John Donne

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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe. – Horace

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There is no one subsists by himself alone. – Owen Felltham

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana

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As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. – Juliana Hatfield

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We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions. – Martin Van Buren

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So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. – Murray Gell-Mann

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