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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4 -
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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