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Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings. — John Wright
Whenever anyone says "I can't," it makes me wish he'd get stung to death by about ten thousand bees. When he says "I'll try," five… — Jack Handey
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common… — Marcus Aurelius
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. — Jean de la Bruyere
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times.… — Martin Luther
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. — John Mortimer
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each… — Laozi
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Robert Breault
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands… — John Milton
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. — Kimon Nicolaides
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett
If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives,… — Michelle Hodkin
Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to… — Richard Bach
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. — Orson Scott Card
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's… — Paul Shepard
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. — Josiah Strong
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those… — Emanuel Lasker
The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the… — Mark Twain
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand… — Victor Hugo
Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless… — William Baldwin
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… — William Faulkner
Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. — Charles Spurgeon

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