"How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way."
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"Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children."
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"Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself."
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"A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long."
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"Never use a long word where a short one will do."
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"Every sentence is the result of a long probation."
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"As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days."
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"Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people."
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"In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level."
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"Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion."
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"I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart"
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"There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue."
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"When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason."
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"When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful."
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"As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder."
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"It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."
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"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."
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"I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators."
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