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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and… — Henry David Thoreau
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. — John Suckling
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. — Oliver Goldsmith
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit

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