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Post by Gator on Jul 2, 2018 0:24:08 GMT -5
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Jul 2, 2018 23:44:44 GMT -5
Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Jul 4, 2018 0:10:50 GMT -5
All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it.
Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
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Post by Gator on Jul 4, 2018 23:10:33 GMT -5
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
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Post by Gator on Jul 6, 2018 9:12:27 GMT -5
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Jul 7, 2018 22:50:39 GMT -5
It seems that a man is meant to live only one life in this world. When he tries to live a second, he develops another nature.
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
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Post by Gator on Jul 8, 2018 2:19:18 GMT -5
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Jul 14, 2018 23:21:23 GMT -5
We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered, and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him ... I never lie down at night but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow-creature in the time of need ... Is not this to be rich?
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Jul 15, 2018 23:39:23 GMT -5
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
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Post by Gator on Jul 19, 2018 16:54:37 GMT -5
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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Post by Gator on Jul 19, 2018 16:55:12 GMT -5
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
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Post by Gator on Jul 19, 2018 16:55:39 GMT -5
There is a good deal of satisfaction about being thoroughly miserable; but nobody likes a fit of the blues.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Jul 20, 2018 2:01:25 GMT -5
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Jul 21, 2018 0:48:51 GMT -5
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? ... He grows a forest to hide it in.
Gilbert Chesterton
(1874-1936)
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Post by Gator on Jul 22, 2018 2:46:26 GMT -5
Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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