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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Following the Equator (1897) -
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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An equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink.
Een geschikte jongen (1993) 171 -
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
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Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007) -
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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