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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

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

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

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

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton

Training, Service, Next

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Foolish

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

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.
Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Society, Husband

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge

Down, Road, Sure

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

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

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine

Music, Beautiful, Words

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Useful

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Long, Sight

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Young

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond Tutu

Religion, Family, God

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle

Heart, Head, Sees

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Age, Happy, Days

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

Idea, Ghost, Explain

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez

Life, Love, Best

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Child, Born, Ignorant

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
Dolly Parton

Hope, Home, Husband

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

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rude, Met, Slam

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Travel, Science

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

Through, Away, Minds

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Laughter, Thought

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