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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. — Alan Watts
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. — Evelyn Waugh
Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and… — Ellen G. White
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we… — Marianne Williamson
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… — William Wordsworth
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are… — Milan Kundera
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a… — Mark Steyn
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and… — Nick Hornby
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate… — Marquis de Sade
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced… — Paul Rudnick
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no… — Hermann Hesse
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours… — Richard Paul Evans
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it… — P.G. Wodehouse
When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench — Samuel Beckett
Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight… — Erin Hunter
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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