"Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most."
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"The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows."
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"A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open."
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"Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear."
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"I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating."
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"If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be."
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"Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering."
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"Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands."
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"Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God."
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"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."
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"English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in."
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"God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy."
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"The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life."
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"Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars."
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"But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes."
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"The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it."
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"There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine."
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"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states."
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"A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead."
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"Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television."
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