Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
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None of the ethics legislation that's pending would have had any effect on that investigation. We have bribery laws on the books, and it's always been illegal to hand over bags of cash.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
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He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
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They're taking the health care group and really expanded their bandwidth.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge
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You have to make it happen.
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