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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
— Dwight L. Moody
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She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.
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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to…
— Herbert Hoover
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
— Arthur Rackham
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Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
— Confucius
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God, who winds up our sundials ...
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except…
— Bernard Levin
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
— Benjamin Franklin
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A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
— John Hodgman
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We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own…
— Ford Madox Ford
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