Quotes 301 till 320 of 426.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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