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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
"Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise."
"Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."
"A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again."
"Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts."
"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him."
"We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."
"Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly."
"To paint nature you must be in it a long time."
"I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of."
"You're immortal as long as you live."
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
"The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits."
"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return."
"Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained"
"The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness."
"Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."
"The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield."
"Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself."
"The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water."
