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• Keep Right on to the End of the Road

  Sir Harry Lauder

  Ends, End Of The Road

  'The End of the Road' (1924 song)

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• Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Women, Piety

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• Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

  Samuel Beckett

  Loneliness, Lost Ones, Body

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.202, Grove Press

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• Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

  Carolyn Wells

  Wall, Broke, Streets

  Carolyn Wells (1913). “Pleasing Prose”

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• I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

  George Washington

  Government, Feelings, Execution

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• Keep right on to the end of the road,
  Keep right on to the end.
  Tho' the way be long let your heart be strong,
  Keep right on round the bend.

  Sir Harry Lauder

  Strong, Heart, Long

  'The End of the Road' (1924 song)

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Wells, Persons

  1849-50 Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.16.

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• I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

  Ewan MacColl

  Country, Travel, Men

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• To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Home, Character, People

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.28

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• A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
  [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Country, Men, Brave

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sight, Funeral

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.

  Francois Rabelais

  Soul, Deeds, Bloodshed

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• No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Moon, Men

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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• The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Long, Evil

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• The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

  William Ralph Inge

  Knowledge, Men, Tree

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Skills

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

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• Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
  Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
  The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
  Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

  James Gates Percival

  Sweet, Heart, Peaceful

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• We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Long, May

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Body, Reincarnation

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Men, Heaven

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• The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yield, Joy, Desire

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• By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

  Gautama Buddha

  Science, Giving, Religion

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• Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
  Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
  How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
  Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Thinking, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.136, University of Virginia Press

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