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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.The Winter's Tale (1610) 4,3 -
A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
Goethe's Works (1832) -
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Wings of Fire -
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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