"Esk felt that bravery was called for, but……" — Terry Pratchett
"Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that…
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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— Lenny Kaye
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this…
— Robert Greene
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
— Robert Greene
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary,…
— Stephen Leacock
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