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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is…
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The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is…
— Brian Froud
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
— Vaclav Havel
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Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of…
— Faye J Crosby
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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
— William Shenstone
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than…
— Bertrand Russell
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
— Horatio Nelson
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
— Michel de Montaigne
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
— Pliny the Elder
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It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all…
— Paul Auster
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What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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