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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), On the Conversations of Lords -
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd -
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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