"History proves nothing because it contains everything."
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"We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best."
"A witty quote proves nothing."
"And sometimes we die to prove that we lived."
"Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest."
"All my life has been about proving myself."
"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."
"Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it."
"You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend."
"[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true."
"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."
"If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible."
"All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch."
"I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it."
"The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments"
"When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing."
"I don't have to prove anything to anybody."
"We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge."
"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."
"Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them."