Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
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Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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Dancing is my obsession. My life.
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I can't control my frustration.
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
