Quotes 441 till 460 of 2262.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
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Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
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Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces
Source: Boris Johnson In Beijing, The Guardian, 21 August 2008 -
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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Half-way through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again.... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid...
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
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He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.
Source: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House -
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
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He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
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