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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. — Johnny Miller
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup.… — Ken Venturi
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one… — Mother Teresa
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. — William Shakespeare
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is… — Meister Eckhart
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are… — Marcus Aurelius
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould
I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. — Alexander Smith
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. — Joseph Conrad
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a… — Stendhal
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is… — Washington Irving
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. — Remy de Gourmont
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does… — Thomas A. Edison

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