“ You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. ”
- Philip Massinger- Copy
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“ He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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“ Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
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“ The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ”
- Macaulay- Copy
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“ There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens — this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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“ OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round — for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost — do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. ”
- Aaron Burr- Copy
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“ Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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