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Sophocles, Trachiniae
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
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Nick Faldo
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Miguel de Cervantes
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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Plutarch
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
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Rabbi Harold Kushner
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Gerald R. Ford
A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis)
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Longfellow
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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W. Somerset Maugham
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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