There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
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GREG DENING There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS There is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLAN There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty
GEORGE FARQUHAR There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD There is nothing so convincing as a thing well done.
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OSCAR WILDE There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
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DAVID LLOYD GEORGE There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
WALTER LIPPMANN There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
HERBERT MARSHALL There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
DAVID RAKOFF There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortune
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ELIZABETH LANGLAND and that's invaluable for growth.
ELIZABETH LANGLAND Now they're choosing UC Davis for the arts.
ELIZABETH LANGLAND Their vision is going to provide a touchstone for us,
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WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
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WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
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WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
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WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
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WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
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WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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Whi...
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WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
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WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
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WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
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And t...
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And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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