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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Source: Up From Slavery (1901) -
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I love opposition that has convictions.
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I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Source: PC Magazine, 23 June 2008 -
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week, a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
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