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  • Joseph Conrad They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
    Chance (1913)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Horace This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Aristophanes This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
    Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
    Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Voltaire This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Elbert Hubbard This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Amelia E. Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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