The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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One destin'd period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All food alike for worms, companions in the grave.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round.. As a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
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Men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
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I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men brave men will make it so.
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