When mama's not happy, nobody's happy.


Edward Laumann

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Herding some good feelings today, with hope that one day, I will be a good shepherd of JOY.
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The HEART where the truth belongs, where love originates, where beauty resides, where pain strikes,w...
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Give without expecting anything in return, and in return unexpected things will happen.
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Hard working is always a tremendous way to genuinely reach your dream.
HAPPY MUDIMELI
If its truly yours, take your time to learn about it, there is no need to rush it
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An electrician gets excited when he fixes a problem, but an engineer becomes more excited when he pr...
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I love love! And everything about it! It honestly feels like magic, the way you’re emotionally con...
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Do what makes you feel like you belong. Be with whoever fills that void and makes you seem like no o...
HAPPY FBI
Be happy, be thankful, be YOU. It may seem hard to do, you know, to be happy, and be who you are, bu...
HAPPY FBI
We have to find a way to slow them down.
HAPPY OSBOURNE
I won't say I helped him because he got the job on his own. I just let him know the job was open.
HAPPY OSBOURNE
Actually, the 300 wins means nothing compared to what our kids have done. These guys just finished b...
HAPPY OSBORNE
Sometimes I get frustrated because I don't like to lose and probably didn't approach things the corr...
HAPPY HARVICK
We always worry about running out of gas, but once we were able to get out in front and in clean air...
HAPPY HARVICK
I think it will pass next week. It fell apart when the Lt. Governor adjourned the senate because the...
HAPPY FULFORD
When we're funded better and you can look at this historically, tuition is not increased or it is in...
HAPPY FULFORD
I think probably reports 2007 will be alright. It is a stout budget, but in 2008 we're going to have...
HAPPY FULFORD
This year it is real important for in our case, about a 19 percent increase. In bad years it is impo...
HAPPY FULFORD
Obviously this is a good budget for us, an increase of 19 percent across the board.
HAPPY FULFORD
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I would have been happy beforehand with a 1-1, but not looking at the whole match and when we are ah...
PETER NEURURER
He's not as loose and happy go-lucky as he was but, hey, that's the way it is. When you're a manager...
CHRIS WIDGER
He's not as loose and happy-go-lucky as he was but, hey, that's the way it is. When you're a manager...
CHRIS WIDGER
I was not very happy with the way things were going.
DARIO FRANCHITTI
When you don't make a bogey, you're happy,
TOM WATSON
They come to me when they're happy or unhappy, or want something different.
JULIE WEBER
When I am alone I am happy.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
I'm happy that things are going up in the markets but when things get too bullish and too, I don't k...
DONALD SELKIN
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
OSCAR WILDE
When the sun shines, plants are happy.
When plants grow, animals are happy.
When animals f...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I'm not happy about anything, ... I don't think anybody played well. When you get beat, who plays we...
ROMEO CRENNEL
When you get this far down the line, you're not going to have a gimme game. We're happy to be where ...
RICK INSELL
We're not happy with the point, but we'll take it.
CRISTOBAL HUET
You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed be...
EMMET FOX
I am not happy with the referee.
JOSE MOURINHO
When my kids are happy, I am happy.
KRIS JENNER
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happ...
JACK MA
We can't just be happy about getting in. When you get complacent about getting in, you're done in th...
CHRIS LOWERY
I was extremely happy when told that I was going to have anything to do with Gatorade.
DANTE HALL
What do you take me for, an idiot? [when asked if he was happy]
CHARLES DE GAULLE
He doesn't look very happy and when he's cranky you don't want to talk to him. It's playoffs. Everyt...
DARIUS KASPARAITIS
I feel my best when I'm happy
WINONA RYDER
Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. Y...
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
FANNIE HURST
I'm just happy that I'm skating really good. Sometimes when you're not feeling good, you concentrate...
MELISSA GREGORY
I'm happy to be called not a Rudy Giuliani ... a scapegoat ... if it means that FEMA that I knew whe...
MICHAEL BROWN
Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
We have a connection because we're twins. When she does good, I'm happy. When I do good, she's happy...
BECKY NOVACEK
I'm not happy with how things are going. I'm particularly not happy with Iraq, not happy with how th...
MARGARET CAMPANELLI
Don't share problems inside your relationship with the people outside your relationship. Many are no...
GOLDEN MASHEGO
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES
We were hoping that the audience was going to be happy about it and not like, 'What they are doing?'...
COURTENEY COX
I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.
CHARLIZE THERON
It's not that I'm not happy with my role, ... I'm not used to not being a starter. I've been a start...
EARL LITTLE
My power is not sufficient but I'm so happy to have got out there and competed.
ZHAO HONGBO
I don't have enough pressure to take a shower or do anything, so I'm not real happy .
VIRGINIA BARTHOLOMEW
Now that we're in it, of course, we're not going to take the attitude that we're just happy to be th...
WERNER CHRISTEN
These have not been happy times. I really am aghast as I look at what's been happening.
JANE KIRTLEY
This is not something we wanted to do, ... The mayor was not happy about this. We hung on for as lon...
ZENO
I'm not concerned about those things, I know I'm not going to keep everybody happy along the way,
RICKY PONTING
I'm happy because I'm not in Detroit. I never have to live in Detroit.
RICK REILLY
I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.
ROY KEANE
Obviously there are certain things he's not going to be happy about and a certain way that he's goin...
STEPHEN JACKSON
It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.
ROY T. BENNETT
Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money
GROUCHO MARX
Often they don't even admit it to their partners. It's the old 'I've got a headache' instead of, 'I ...
EDWARD LAUMANN
In relationships based on equality, couples tend to develop sexual habits that are more in keeping w...
EDWARD LAUMANN
Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount th...
EDWARD LAUMANN
People in these age ranges are in fact engaged in a significant amount of sex. It should be a surpri...
EDWARD LAUMANN
It's not a feminine thing to do so it's a sign of liberality.
EDWARD LAUMANN
We were quite surprised to see such clear evidence, at least within the white population, that mastu...
EDWARD LAUMANN
I think it gives us a base for explaining why we had this enormous response to Viagra.
EDWARD LAUMANN
We were quite surprised to see such clear evidence, at least within the white population, that mastu...
EDWARD LAUMANN
By and large to do it [circumcision] as a routine practice for everyone doesn't strike me as sound p...
EDWARD LAUMANN
I understand the profession. When the offense is not productive, it falls on my shoulders. I'm not h...
DAN WERNER
I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my...
PAT BURNS
Clearly there was a systemic breakdown. British Columbians aren't happy with it. I'm not happy with ...
GORDON CAMPBELL
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
TANA FRENCH
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
CARTER BURWELL
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know the...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
CHRISTY TURLINGTON
He was in there supporting the lads, he was as happy as anyone afterwards and when he is back he wil...
FRANK LAMPARD
O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a bab...
PEGGY LEE
We're a team. We're all happy when somebody else wins, just as happy as we are when we win.
CORBIN MARTIN
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
TOM STOPPARD
Happy, happy fashion - there is not much more to it than that,
MARC JACOBS
It’s not reality that makes people happy; good thoughts make people happy.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Sure most of us are 'happy'. Happy when we're shopping or drinking in the pub. Try being happy for j...
CHERYL RUSHTON
Customers are not happy. I am not happy; we are losing money. And we are here for the customers, and...
RIAZ AHMED
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular mo...
EVA BRAUN
Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.
ANGIE HARMON
WITH NOT A THING WILL YOU BE HAPPY, UNTIL YOU ARE HAPPY WITH NOT A THING.
ROGER DON DESHONE
When will people understand that a peaceful world is not a happy world?
ERIC WISE
When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA
This has been very gratifying. Customers like the open approach, and when they're happy, we're happy...
KEVIN CONNOR
...if this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.
JULIA HOBAN

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Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
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If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
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I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
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I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
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More of me comes out when I improvise.
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The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR
The simple act of caring is heroic.
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I am all for the short and merry life.
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I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
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He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
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Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
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The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
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Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
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Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
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The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
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Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
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It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
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I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
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The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
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Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
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And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
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For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
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The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
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And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
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Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
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Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
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When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN
By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
EDWARD EVERETT
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Every decision you make is a mistake.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG