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- But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair
- I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch… — Anne Bronte
- Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that… — Nick Cave
- It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we… — Max Beerbohm
- Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It… — Rachel Billington
- We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks… — John Wesley Powell
- The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and… — James Russell Lowell
- Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come… — Louise Bourgeois
- The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks… — Thomas Jefferson
- Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving — Napoleon Hill
- ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman