Quotes with do-take

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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Ashvaghosha Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
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  • George Herbert Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • James Taylor Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Butch Trucks To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Scott Reed To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Abbie M. Dale To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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