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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
Suffering
Bible

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Nudity
Otto Von Bismarck

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
Business
Tony Blair

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Every harlot was a virgin once.
Innocence
William Blake

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What is now proved was only once imagined.
Imagination
William Blake

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Failure
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Eyes
Christian Nevell Bovee

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
Age and Aging
Anita Brookner

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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Talent
Garth Brooks

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The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Repentance
Walter Brower

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Ideas
Les Brown

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Since when was genius found respectable?
Genius
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Age and Aging
Robert Browning

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Ambition
Robert Browning

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Youth
Robert Browning

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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Debt
Pearl S. Buck

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Belief
Warren Buffett

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Change
Warren Buffett

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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
Doubt
John Bunyan

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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Retirement
George Burns

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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Marriage
Robert Burton

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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Sir Richard Burton

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
God
Eric Butterworth

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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Giving
Lord Byron

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Ambition
Lord Byron

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun