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  • Matthew Prior They talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Carl Sandburg They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
    Chicago l. 6 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anne Hutchinson They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • John Tillotson They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Lord Clarendon They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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  • Anthony Trollope They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ann Macbeth They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bobby Sands They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • C. S. Lewis They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
    That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billie Jean King They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Plato Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Tacitus Things forbidden have a secret charm.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Blaise Pascal Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Virginia Woolf Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Blaise Pascal Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bo Bennett Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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