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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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R. Brokhoff
If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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John Stuart Mill
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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John Milton
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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E. M. Forster
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Alan Valentine
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.
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Seneca
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
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Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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Miguel de Cervantes
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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