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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
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Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 52, st. 1 -
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
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Few are the friends of a man's self, most those of his circumstances.
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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