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With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's… — George Crabbe
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than… — Max Euwe
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are… — Richard Gere
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. — Walter Scott
Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow. — Euripides
Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. — Mikhail Chigorin
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can… — Dale Carnegie
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep — Garrison Keillor
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if… — Henry Ward Beecher
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end,… — Helen Prejean
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek… — Helen Prejean
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly… — Joseph Lowery
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. — Rama Swami
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. — Mother Teresa
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author

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