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Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your…
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You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the…
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it…
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which…
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck…
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I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it…
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
— Victor Borge
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I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the…
— Pablo Neruda
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
— Jack Butler Yeats
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