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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So if this Congress wanted to learn how to censor, we'd go to you - the company that should symbolize the greatest freedom of information in the history of man. This is a profound story that's being told.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
