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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and… — Jane Austen
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make… — John Newton
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most… — Susan Cain
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this… — Pete Doherty
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I… — Barbara Tuchman
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force… — Michael Ignatieff
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. — Edward McKendree Bounds
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and… — Ethan Allen
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and… — Fanny Kemble
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute… — George Bancroft
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Proud to be from New York!! Such a beautiful thing!! So thankful and happy!! Love and equality prevailed in New York!! — Lea Michele
Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be regarded as the… — Henry David Thoreau

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