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I would fain grow old learning many things.

And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, t...

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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...

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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

The best things in life are silly.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...

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If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done...

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Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that ...

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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the k...

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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was le...

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The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ...

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Perception and reality are two different things.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things d...

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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...

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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thous...

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

I never said most of the things I said.

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through ...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equab...

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Change in all things is sweet.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, an...

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Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, ...

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I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.

Paint the essential character of things.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things...

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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a ...

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From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unneces...

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He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ne...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names...

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Galileo GalileiDiscoveries and Opinions of Galileo

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times mor...

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out ...

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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...

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That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Things do not change we change.

Great things are won by great dangers.

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, som...

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My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We ...

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama,...

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I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.