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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bode Miller Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
    Source: Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Charles Swindoll Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Beth Ditto Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Matthew Arnold Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Still people are dangerous.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Anna Lindh Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Beverley Mitchell Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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  • Francis Bacon Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Woodward Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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