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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes…

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…

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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their… — Jeff Cooper
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb — Seneca the Younger
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child
It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how… — Robert Schumann
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they… — Jean Lorrain
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call… — Anne Michaels
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep… — John Keats

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