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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Great, Truth, Playing

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, May, After

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich Fromm

Die, Means, Born

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

After, Generation, Wiser

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

Love, Laughter, Parents

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
Ron Paul

Political, Revolution, Changes

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Time, Person, Him

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

Cool, Soul, Stand

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Death, After, Birth

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce Meyer

Time, God, Feeling

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

Born, Late, Generation

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
Ron Paul

War, After, Happened

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
Ron Paul

Government, Medical, Care

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats

Soul, Energy, Moral

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Good, Laugh, May

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

Life, Feeling, Lost

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge

Worry, Trouble, Interest

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Deep, Compassion, High

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

Time, Sleep, Nothing

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

Born, Dies, Fully

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
Marlene Dietrich

Friend, Secret, Twice

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
Charles Stanley

Time, Money, Women

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead

Family, Live, Impossible

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

Work, Good, Forward

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach

Away, Learn, Possible

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sure, Miss, Train

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Love, God

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver

Beautiful, Sunrise, Nothing

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck

War, Lie, After

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