Lasts Quotes
9102 quotes by 5073 authors
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
— John Dryden
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For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put…
— Elias Zerhouni
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As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my…
— Henry Adams
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In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.
— Herbert Butterfield
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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
— Joseph J. Ellis
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Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
— Bella Abzug
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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of…
— H.G. Wells
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The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,…
— Winston Churchill
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Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
— Friedrich Schiller
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
— Albert Einstein
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It…
— Khalil Gibran
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Love will conquer at the last.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
— Unknown Author
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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
— Evan Esar
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Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last…
— Richard O'Brien
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