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It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
Author: Author Unknown
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
Author: Peter Gabriel
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Author: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
Author: J.M. Barrie
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
Author: Geoffrey Parsons
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Author: Don Marquis
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
Author: William Shakespeare
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From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Author: Pubilius Syrus
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Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.
Author: Sřren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Author: George Orwell
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Author: Horace, Epistles
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Author: Paul Valery
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Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
Author: Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p.8
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Author: Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Author: Mark Twain
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
Author: Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Author: Virginia Woolf
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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