We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Quote by John Randolph

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Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if...

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if...

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse...

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse...

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take...

It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years...

It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years...

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become...

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become...

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I...

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I...

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Time will do the talking, years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy...

Time will do the talking, years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy...

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just...

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just...

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the...

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the...

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that...

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that...