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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
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But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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