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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Samuel Johnson
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
Colin Wilson
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There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
Robert Southey
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
Lucian
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A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.
Norman Mailer
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The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
Julien Green
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.
Tom Reiss
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We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'
Vincent Harding
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Wattpad is exciting because there is the opportunity to create content with depth.
Vincent Lam
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... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Ruth Benedict
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My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.
Tom Barbash
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
Edmund White
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men both were true men both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
Matthew Simpson
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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