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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence

Hard, Away, Won

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Thor Heyerdahl

War, Mind, Others

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

Beauty, Marriage, Money

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut

Hard, Learn, Himself

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot

Rather, Lord, Whether

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Courage, Obstacles, Air

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot

Good, May, Down

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

Children, Parents, Long

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Weren, Doors

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris

Give, Last, Next

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Vidal Sassoon

Woman, Working, Young

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
William Arthur Ward

Today, Live, Again

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton

Today, Again, Yesterday

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Bed, Thinks, Clock

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Love, Reality, Thought

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Truth, Down, Speak

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

Good, Thinking, Others

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Robert H. Schuller

Reason, Realize, Changed

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen

Woman, Sometimes, She

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley

Nature, Nothing, Down

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno

God, Yourself, May

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

War, Hard, Eyes

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Age, Great, Human

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld

Good, Yourself, Husband

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan

Real, Laugh, Him

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
Taylor Swift

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Long, Book

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
James Allen

Good, Money, Real

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