“ He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. ”
- Tennyson- Copy
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“ Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them. ”
- Tommy Lasorda- Copy
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“ See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'. ”
- Victor Frankl- Copy
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“ It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. ”
- Adlai Stevenson- Copy
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“ Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Having once sinned, we must sin no more, and having to suffer in consequence of sin, we must bear it patiently. ”
- Mary Howitt- Copy
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“ He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. ”
- Elizabeth Goudge- Copy
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“ And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ”
- Fred Brooks- Copy
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“ The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. ”
- Sam Walter Foss- Copy
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