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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Long Quotes , Decision Quotes

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

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In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

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In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

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Tags : Adam Kirsch Quotes , Blood Quotes , Long Quotes

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Doctrine Quotes

Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Long Quotes , May Quotes

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Long Quotes

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Long Quotes , Evil Quotes

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Long Quotes , Progress Quotes

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Long Quotes , Library Quotes

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Long Quotes

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Time Quotes , Long Quotes

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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