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• Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a… — Lydia M. Child
• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will… — Leonard Cohen
• Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is… — Sun Tzu
• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of… — Sigmund Freud
• I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of… — Thomas Jefferson
• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship… — Philip Yancey
• ...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by… — Hippocrates
• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held… — Baruch Spinoza
• I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,… — Jennifer Worth
• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape… — George Meredith
• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and… — Florence Nightingale

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