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  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
  • Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • James Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Alexander Pope Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bono You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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