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William Ellery Channing
Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
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Francis William Bourdillon
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
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Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Bill Peterson, football coach
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
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Langston Hughes
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years
I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Boris Pasternak
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Evelyn Underhill
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
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Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses"
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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