Spares Quotes - Page 24

• Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Justice, Mercy, Canterbury

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• Spirit, that made those heroes dare
  To die, and leave their children free,
  Bid Time and Nature gently spare
  The shaft we raise to them and thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.521, Harvard University Press

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• Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Bud, Moments

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.115, Pearson Education

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• I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Beautiful, Believe, Luxury

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.64

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Giving, Safe

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Taste, Firsts

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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• I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

  Kevin Smith

  Weed, Acres, Spare Time

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

  Neil Armstrong

  Jobs, Ipods, Stuff

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.” And then he opened the door.

  Charlaine Harris

  Unique, Doors, Talking

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Fun, Moving, People

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• As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  "Jeff Bridges Interview AMERICAN MASTERS – JEFF BRIDGES: THE DUDE ABIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Bakers, Pudding

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.42, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A short reign does not spare the masses.

  Statius

  Doe, Reign, Mass

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• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Pain, Talking

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

  Henry Miller

  Christian, Crazy, War

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• Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

  Virgil

  Peace, War, Skills

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child.

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Punishment, Moments

  'Hudibras' pt. 2 (1664), canto 1, l. 843

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• An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

  William Ellery Channing

  Purpose, Golden, Moments

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• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Motivation

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• Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

  Franz Bardon

  Spiritual, Pain, Light

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• O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Tree, Barren, Spots

  'The Beech-Tree's Petition'.

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