“ A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. ”
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“ There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ”
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“ He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ”
- J. Krishnamutri- Copy
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“ Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
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“ The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ”
- Thucydides- Copy
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“ Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. ”
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“ I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! ”
- Louise Bogan- Copy
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“ Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. ”
- Joseph Parry- Copy
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“ Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ”
- Adam Smith- Copy
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“ Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
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“ I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. ”
- Eugene Forsey- Copy
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“ We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
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“ Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ”
- Malcolm Bradbury- Copy
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“ A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
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“ Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. ”
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“ Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. ”
- Francis Schaeffer- Copy
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“ Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ”
- Christiane Collange- Copy
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“ Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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