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We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace;…
— Winston Churchill
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If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it…
— Richard Baxter
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The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things…
— Sengcan
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One touch is worth ten thousand words.
— Harold H. Bloomfield
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To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device…
— Maimonides
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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand…
— William Wordsworth
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Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . .…
— Zhuangzi
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Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times,…
— Steven Pressfield
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As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
— Huineng
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As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very…
— Michael Behe
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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you…
— Nina Bawden
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand…
— Kevin Myers
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The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems ...
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I…
— Walt Whitman
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This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a…
— Prentice Mulford
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True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions…
— Zhuangzi
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These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
— Langston Hughes
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect…
— Dick Gregory
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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
— John Donne
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One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
— Heraclitus
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