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  • William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • William Wordsworth That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Wyndham Lewis ''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Edmund Burke A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • C. E. Montague A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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  • Salman Rushdie A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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