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One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Source: Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra -
One and God make a majority.
― Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895) -
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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