The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
William Barclay
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HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
HEYWOOD C. BROUN The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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BENJAMIN E. MAYS The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.
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JEAN RACINE There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
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GILES ANDREAE Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
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JEAN RACINE The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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UNKNOWN The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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NEIL GAIMAN The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had tha...
OLIVIA WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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JEFFREY FRY The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN