"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."
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"A well-behaved woman seldom makes history"
"So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves."
"I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to."
"Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do."
"The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them."
"Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without."
"I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well."
"I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well."
"When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well"
"He that lives well, is learned enough."
"If you eat well, you can transform your life."
"Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?"
"When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious."
"Well behaved women do not make history."
"I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act."
"You were made to be kissed, often and well."
"Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known."
"If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well."
"We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God."