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"The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself." - Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God." - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
"That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer." - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
"The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so." - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
"You have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life" - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity." - William Godwin
"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"Now I will believe that there are unicorns; that in Arabia there is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one Phoenix at this hour reigning there." - William Shakespeare
"Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was." - William Shakespeare
"Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man." - Edwin Percy Whipple
"Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?" - William Shakespeare
"In the common sense of the word, Judaism is not a religion, it is not a system of dogmas, of sacramental grace; it is not a bundle of rites and ceremonies; it is not a road to happiness in the hereafter; it is not a scheme of salvation from original sin; it does neither stand nor fall with our views as to the character of those books we call sacred, and as to their authorship. But it is a message to the world that righteousness must be its own reward, and is of that force which builds the world and shapes the courses of men." - Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch
"The conscious discovery by you that you have this Power within you, and your determination to make use of it, is the birth of the child. And it is easy to see how very apt the symbol is, for the infant that is born in consciousness is just such a weak, feeble entity as any new-born child, and it calls for the same careful nursing and guarding that any infant does in its earliest days. After a time, however, as the weeks go by, the child grows stronger and bigger, until a time comes when it can well take care of itself; and then it grows and grows in wisdom and stature until, no longer leaning on the mother’s care, the child, now arrived at man’s estate, turns the tables, and repays its debt by taking over the care of its mother. So your ability to contact the mystic Power within yourself, frail and feeble at first, will gradually develop until you find yourself permitting that Power to take your whole life into its care." - Emmet Fox
"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust." - Gustave Flaubert