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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed… — Seneca the Younger
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. — William Wordsworth
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man… — Thomas de Quincey
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests. — Napoleon Bonaparte
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. — Lawrence Durrell
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of… — Philibert Joseph Roux
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets. — Susan Sontag
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. — Ovid
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good… — Robert A. Heinlein
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour. — Lord Byron
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes… — Ugo Betti
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. — Baron de Montesquieu
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker

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