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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

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In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

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The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

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Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

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