"But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?"
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"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely."
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"Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit."
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"National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same."
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"Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment."
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"This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You."
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"the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense."
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"Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time."
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"You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know"
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"Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind."
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"Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol."
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"No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms."
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"I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost."
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"The first years of man must make provision for the last."
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"Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace."
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"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"
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"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"
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"Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well."
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"All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first."
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"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."
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