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God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful. — John Calvin
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the… — Marcel Proust
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,… — Charles Lindbergh
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. — Cesar Chavez
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred… — P.G. Wodehouse
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home. — Groucho Marx
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power… — John F. Kennedy
The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the… — Mao Zedong
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard… — Mary Roberts Rinehart

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