Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
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nothing
his peace he loses it to his wife
his temper he has to let... APURVA GAGLANI It felt like being shot with an arrow, and Will jerked back. His wineglass crashed to the floor and ... CASSANDRA CLARE The more one rejigs to unravel himself, the more he finds hypocrisy of his world. ANUJ SOMANY There's nothing I want more for Jerome than to see him win the Super Bowl here in his hometown. It w... GLADYS BETTIS Agent Burmister found high explosives residue on Mr. McVeigh's clothing, including both his shirts t... BETH WILKINSON The quantity of kindness that a person could unearth from his heart to share with everyone decides e... ANUJ SOMANY The stranger astonished him more and more by her dignified and serious manner. It's usually the case... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the Whit... JULES FARBER Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, ... W. E. B. DU BOIS I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his f... BRUCE R. MCCONKIE Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because w... RICK RIORDAN [Zoeller said the remarks were a reference to the Champions Dinner, in which the previous year's win... FUZZY ZOELLER He is flat-out over anxious. He has come out of his game a little bit and maybe put more into his sw... MIKE SCIOSCIA My brother, Bob Boots, is a construction battalion and has been for more than 20 years and his home ... DEBBIE JOHNSON And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them i... BIBLE He had a very exciting career and a wonderful sense of humor that he shared with his family. He did ... DARLENE JACKSON His back was to me and he was wearing pajama bottoms and nothing else. His shoulders, the smooth mus... KRISTEN ASHLEY At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud... JACK LONDON Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. JEREMY BENTHAM He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. PATRICK SüSKIND A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid ... WILLIAM JAMES The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha... SIGMUND FREUD Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 In his experie... OS GUINNESS And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne... BIBLE Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in c... ABRAHAM KUYPER That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In... 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JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ST. JEROME If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell... JEROME SINGER It's the same type of town that Pittsburgh is, Midwest, blue-collar. And we've had some wins recentl... JEROME BETTIS Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ST. JEROME Because of a lack of funding, officers trained in SWAT are also trained in canine and how to deal wi... JEROME JACKSON No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more inta... JEROME HINES The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipl... JEROME HINES I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in... JEROME JACKSON We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singi... JEROME HINES I don't like that he got a hit off me, ... I told him when I was at Fresno, 'Just keep pitching like... JEROME WILLIAMS There was no rhythm to our passing game early. We had some passes that weren't caught and we had som... JEROME SOUERS This seems to be a case of local officials who have blatantly abused their legal powers, and have no... JEROME COHEN I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side... JEROME FLYNN That is playing into the hands of New Zealand teams, if you run upright into the contact situations ... JEROME PAARWATER I was the youngest guy in the union. At 14! A pianist around there who became my mentor for a little... JEROME RICHARDSON Detroit, you were incredible. Pittsburgh, here we come. I played this game to win a championship. I'... JEROME BETTIS Hopes have been dashed. The market had taken off very quickly. This has cooled investors' sentiment. JEROME FORNERIS We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. JEROME ROBBINS I told you to sell it, not give it away. JEROME ROBBINS This feels great. It makes everything that I've ever had to go through worthwhile. I've always wishe... JEROME BETTIS It makes it all worthwhile. It makes everything we had to go through as a team and everything I had ... JEROME BETTIS It makes everything worthwhile that I've ever had to go through, everything I've done. You know, 13 ... JEROME BETTIS When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ... JEROME HINES Every payoff is a payoff in the end. JEROME JENKINS This makes everything worthwhile. It makes everything we, as a team, had to go through and personall... JEROME BETTIS They look very promising: Shorter, accessible, they're geared to readers a little younger than the c... JEROME KRAMER