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A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good.
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Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225 -
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
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Mysterious Flood, that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee.
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Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
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No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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Our torments also may in length of time become our elements.
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