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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Speak, Word, Fall

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Rich, Poor, Making

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell

Heart, Tense, Sat

Think before you act and act on what you believe.
Bo Bennett

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams

Sing, Hillbilly, Manure

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

God, Eyes, Soul

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Freedom, Sleep

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

Science, Poetry, Tell

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Words

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
Sid Vicious

Die, Wanted, Lived

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove

Impossible, Possible, Imagine

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Mason Cooley

Justice, Might, Mercy

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul

Time, Person, Coward

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Frank Rizzo

Night, Liberal, Mugged

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
Doug Coupland

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton

Liberty, Blessing, Themselves

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

Experience, Human, Through

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
Brian Tracy

Today, Less, Results

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards

Good, Reality, Less

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom

Joy, Labor, Reap

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot

Children, Married, Three

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey

Good, Everything, Learn

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
Jennifer Lawrence

Someone, Person, Said

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
Arnold H. Glasow

Future, Trouble, Ready

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul

Life, Morning, Live

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
Neil Young

Older, View, Outside

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
Henry Rollins

Enough, Stage, Walking

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

Mind, State, Exists

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber

Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne

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