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Tag Name "Soonest" (17)

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On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
Robert Greene
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The greatest flood has the soonest ebb the sorest tempest the most sudden calm the hottest love the coldest end and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
Socrates
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
William Hazlitt
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
William Shakespeare
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Little said is soonest mended.
George Wither
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
James Boswell
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Shun delays, they breed remorseTake thy time while time is lent theeCreeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.
Robert Southwell
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
Sophocles
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Walter Savage Landor
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Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
William C. Bryant
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
William Shakespeare
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And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
William Shakespeare
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That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
Decimus Laberius
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I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
Gerald Asher
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Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
Mary Russell Mitford