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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse. — Pindar
It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. — Charles Caleb Colton
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them… — William Hazlitt
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping? — William Shakespeare
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States.… — Abraham Lincoln
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His… — Samuel Adams
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is… — Mark Twain
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely… — Mark Twain
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by… — James Madison
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And… — Franklin P. Adams
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live… — Noam Chomsky
Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory. — Unknown Author
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think… — George W. Bush
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke

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