Quote by Richard Cobden
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. - Richard Cobden

Luck relies on chance, labor on character. – Richard Cobden

Other quotes by Richard Cobden

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. – Richard Cobden

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fitness
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I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. – Richard Cobden

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Peace
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. – Richard Cobden

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Luck
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Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. – Author Unknown

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Luck

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. – Lord Beaverbrook

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Luck

Luck is the idol of the idle. – Proverb

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Luck

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Luck

Random Quotes

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Honesty

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. Im sorry I do not have a car. – Eric San

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car

Im always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. – Herbie Hancock

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Future

In teaching others we teach ourselves. – Proverb

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Teaching