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• Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Philosophy, Knowing, Ends

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• Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wind, Deeds, Bragging

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chastity, Tempted

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.884, 谷月社

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• To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirting, Kind, Flirtation

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• Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Battle, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.277, Penguin

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• Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger,
  Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her
  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
  The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
  Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire
  Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
  Woods and groves are of thy dressing;
  Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
  Thus we salute thee with our early song,
  And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

  John Milton

  Song, Morning, Stars

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.43

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• Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, People, Joy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Would Be, Pieces

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XV: "We Arrive At The Real Question", 1929.

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• Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

  John Gay

  Pride, Fool, Claims

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.95

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• May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

  Lord Byron

  Grateful, Skills, Coats

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Self, Giving

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• I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

  John le Carre

  Father, Book, Grew Up

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• Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  Men, Lazy, Religion

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• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."

  John Eliot

  Humility, Men, Reality

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• The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

  Comtesse Diane

  Men, Advice, Done

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• Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirting, Kind, Flirtation

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• Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

  Eminem

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

  Simon Cowell

  Successful, Thinking, Achievement

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• Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, People, Coward

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  Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

  John Hancock

  Government, Justice, Revolution

  John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.

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• The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cunning

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• When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

  Criss Jami

  Individual, Incompetence, Capacity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

  Criss Jami

  Tired, Sight, People

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Nice, Light

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