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What one cannot, another can.


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Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.



All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.



It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.



Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.



Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.



Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.



Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.



Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.



Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.



Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.





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A lot of people who are straight-shooting…they’re only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They’re not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.

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We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.



If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.



If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.



You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.



A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.



All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.



Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

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