"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend…" — Christian Nestell Bovee

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• God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. — Aeschylus
• Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you… — Michael Bloomberg
• Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going… — Sonny Bono
• Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know… — Ray Bradbury
• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed… — James Buchan
• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
• My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more… — Margaret Cho
• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes… — Christopher Hitchens
• Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
• Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
• It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to… — John Wilmot
• No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson

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