Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Elias Lyman Magoon
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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.
M. J. Rose
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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.
Barack Obama
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
Pablo Escobar
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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.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Love, too, has to be learned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
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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.
William Cullen Bryant
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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.
Deke Sharon
Tufts Beelzebubs
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
Kingsley Amis
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Thomas Carlyle
