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/ page 187 of 1205 /The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess I'll split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
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Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
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Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.
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Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
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Death hath so many doors to let out life.
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Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The only defensible war is a war of defense.
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The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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