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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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