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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

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I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

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