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• Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue; be like to angels, and omit no precaution to retain this treasure, which is so easily lost by imprudence. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, says the Apostle.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Angel, Shining

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• If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Integrity, Golf, Games

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• Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Emotional, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ocean, Mean, Science

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• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

  Ben Jonson

  Tyrants, Flattery, Beast

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

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• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Silly, Appreciate

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

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• They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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• A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Loss, Identity

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Vanity, Helping

  Jonathan Swift (1746). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.316

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• You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Hard Work, Persistence

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

  John Hoeven

  Earth Day, Needs, Generations

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Real, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

  Richard G. Scott

  Effort, Heroic, Enjoy

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Meaningful, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.63, Algora Publishing

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• The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Government, Crime, Contracts

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• We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Order, Government, Sight

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• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

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• What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Government, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Liberty, Destruction, Ability

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• To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Forever, Experts

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• Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, May, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.140

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