Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.


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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE
Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, s...
JOHN ADAMS
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, sp...
JOHN ADAMS
O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, bu...
RICHARD BAXTER
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN F KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
UNKNOWN
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have ac...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS
I wish he would have just let us have two captains and let us draft.
DUANE COLEMAN
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
RONALD REAGAN
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren...
ANDREW MURRAY
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ
Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go for...
HENRY B. EYRING
Let us have peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago--will they read of us with ...
NEIL PEART
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
MARK TWAIN
Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.
LITA BURKE
Let us be the joy to find the joy
Let us be the love to find the love
Let us be kind to fi...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Just take my hand &let us dance under a chandelier of starlight.
TREVOR DRIGGERS
When we take a photo of something we never take into consideration what makes our pictures go out of...
GARY F EVANS...
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced ...
RACHEL MCADAMS
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY
Do not fight against feelings. Let us be always lovers never fighters!
ROXANA JONES
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
Yes,” Bernarde quipped, “Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us ...
KATERINA MARTINEZ
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, n...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
He prepared us well. He let us figure out how to win by ourselves. He did his role perfectly just to...
DAN OZIMINSKI
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
ARNA BONTEMPS
History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone ...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
He never, ever let us down,
CHARLES GLASS
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to ...
MARK TWAIN
If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Let us banish fear.
CARTER G. WOODSON
Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
BRAD HENRY
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he ...
BRAD PITT
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and ca...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make u...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS
Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to ma...
OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he ...
BRAD PITT
Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS
Let us do or die.
WARREN BUFFETT
Let us do it again.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
To-morrow let us do or die.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
We're looking for any type of information that may lead us to ultimately solving this case and let t...
ERIC KEHN
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Come, let us do honor to the man who has always honored us.
SIMON WIESENTHAL
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
GRACE PALEY
Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
DAN SHECHTMAN
Life is not always easy for anyone of us. Everybody goes through ups and downs in life. Life is not ...
AVIJEET DAS
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
BARNARD ELLIOT BEE
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them wha...
JAMES JOYCE
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU
Two goals was great. I don't want us to let down after we score. Sometimes we do, I think.
JENNIFER GRUBB
Let us become the change we seek in this world.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
Tomorrow let us do or die!
THOMAS CAMPBELL
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity...
CHINUA ACHEBE
Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
KAILASH SATYARTHI
To enjoy the rainbows, let us dance in the rain. To get lost in the beauty of nature, keep your wind...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
CHARLES DICKENS
Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with...
BOB COOMBES
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of ...
EDWARD GIBBON
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let ...
JOHN LYNCH
Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
HILAIRE BELLOC
AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.
CHRISTOPHER SEUFERT
Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
DADA VASWANI
Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.
BRYANT MCGILL
Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER
They will let us know if they want us to give specific information to the athletes.
GIUSEPPE GATTINO
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter (before the Battle o...
ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD
Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN
I feel like MSHA let us down. They're supposed to protect us, but they let us down.
KAY WARD
One thing our trainers tell us is, you must report any type of damage to the aircraft. For these peo...
BOBBY PACE
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and le...
JOHN CALVIN
Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at eac...
AL OERTER
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much a...
JOSEPH ALOIS SCHUMPETER
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in ...
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