"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."
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"The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else."
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"I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that."
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"Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession."
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"It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving."
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"He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust."
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"God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it."
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"On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either."
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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."
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"This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself."
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"I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently."
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"I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion."
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"Wine gives strength to weary men."
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"The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."
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"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
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"The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same."
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"letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best."
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"A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass."
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"I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well."
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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."
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