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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Women, Men

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Beauty, Truth

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick

Within, Behind, Christ

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp

Work, Good, Someone

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

Difficult, Easy

We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Courage, Done

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Expect

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar

Mind, Goal, Actually

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

Made, Light, Few

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Farewell, Friends, After

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Kids, While, Walk

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Love, Husband, Few

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Attitude, Failure

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Eyes, Keep

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Yourself, Die

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Service, Silent, Church

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Place, Ideas

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Her

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran

Experience, Long, Choose

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Work, Good

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Single, Moment, Wait

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

May, Thought, Grateful

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Anger, Him, Less

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

Action, Superior, Acts

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein

Music, Violence, Reply

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Power, Wisdom

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Humble, Him, Jesus

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Fact, Actually

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius

Example, Affairs, Laborious

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