Quotes 661 till 680 of 1256.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3 -
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 141 -
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
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Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
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One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2017) 893 -
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
The Player of Games (1988) 279 -
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
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