Guarded Quotes

• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• An excuse is a lie guarded.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Responsibility, Excuse

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author”, p.837

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• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Needs, Treasure, Doers

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• That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Sentinels, Scarce

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 5

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• Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

  Jack Nicholson

  Wall, Son, Gun

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

  John Eldredge

  Our World, Self, Trying

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Dream, Evil, Quitting

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• God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.

  Winkie Pratney

  Heart, Effort, Secret

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Motivation, Lying

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Support, Littles

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• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms... If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.

  Stephen Halbrook

  Writing, Gun, Rights

  "That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right". Book by Stephen Halbrook, 1984.

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• I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

  Cathy Freeman

  Breathe, Relaxed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

  Russell Lynes

  Taste, Estimation, Good Taste

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

  Claire Bloom

  Stars, Children, England

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• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

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• Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

  James Madison

  Government, Religion, Atheism

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• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.

  James Madison

  Order, Rights, Doubt

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• I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Thinking, Northerners, New Yorkers

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• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Environmental, Needs

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Games, Yellow

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• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Sea, Mind

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

  Ed Helms

  Jobs, Boisterous, May

  "20Q: Ed Helms". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Love, Jobs, Age

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