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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry

Last, Defense, Trusted

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Anger, Done

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

Change, Hope, Future

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Leave

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wisdom, Done

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Through

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

Learning, Book, Open

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Live, Joy, Choose

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Start, Matter

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger

Crisis, Next, Week

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

Men, Problems, Dream

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Enemy, Growth

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Fight, Knows, Victorious

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy

Change, Attitude, Control

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius

Means, Himself, Simply

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live, Confidence, Honesty

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Pain

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Mind, Between

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

Sometimes, Decisions, Matter

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Nothing, Christian

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, God, Wants

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Knowing

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Time, Try, Moment

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame, Tongue, Prison

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Joel Osteen

Church, Christ, Committed

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Passion

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts, Understand, Put

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob Dylan

Care, Memories, Relive

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

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