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The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary...
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Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own...
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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man...
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in...
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Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung...
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Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her...
Quote #10151
If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.