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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore

Happiness, Through, Often

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck

Life, God, Hope

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers

Family, Means, Behind

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Mother, Greatest

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

May, Wait, Hustle

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

End, Friend, Lost

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Someone

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Words, Big

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss

Try, High, Thinks

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Mean, Off, Cause

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sorry, Angry, Nothing

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Moment, Whether

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Old, Plans, Saving

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen

Love, Heart, Giving

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Free, Opinion

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

Liberty, Free, Earth

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Time, God, Yourself

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Political, Single, Means

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius

Alone, Stand, Virtue

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Person, After

A smart girl leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe

Smart, Girl, Before

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

Democracy, Violence, Head

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Live, Long, Social

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Give

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

Government, Themselves, Mankind

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Beauty, Happy, Around

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, True, Before

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Important, Vote

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