Quotes 241 till 260 of 263.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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