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Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
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Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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Unknown
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.
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Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
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Alexander Pope
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Aelius Donatus
Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
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Eric Hoffer
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Pablo Neruda
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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Zoroaster
TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.
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Mark Twain
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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