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• When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Remember

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• All are presumed good till they are found at fault.

  George Herbert

  Justice, Faults

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Character, House

  Oliver Goldsmith (1828). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...”, p.7

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• To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

  Euripides

  Son, Two, Found You

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Husband, Study

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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• So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
  That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
  Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

  John Milton

  Angel, Heaven, Soul

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.27

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• Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

  Matthew Simpson

  Illustration, Unseen, Facts

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

  James Madison

  Government, Common Sense, Feelings

  Letter to Pierre-Étienne du Ponceau (James Madison papers, Library of Congress), January 23, 1826.

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• I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

  Jimmy Carter

  Marriage, Wife, Argument

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• A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, People, Gazing

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

  Meister Eckhart

  Effort, Use, Rejoice

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• When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Hero, Jordan

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital

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• War never leaves where it found a nation.

  Edmund Burke

  War, Nations

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.163

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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Eight

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• My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

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  Ram Dass

  God, Suffering, Guru

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

  Primo Levi

  Stupid, Heart, Brain

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• In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  God, Atheist, Men

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• I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Novel, Knows

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• I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

  Molly Ivins

  Serious, Easier

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• Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Australia, Gabriel

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• I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

  Buddy Hackett

  People, Laughing, Like You

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, Ironic, World

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Death, Sleep, Stronger

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

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• We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Air, Joy

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