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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

Great, Forget, Suffering

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

Fear, Anger, Forward

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler

Grateful, Mirror, Appearance

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happy, Before, Hearts

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch

Good, Excellent, Avoiding

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov

Time, Forward, May

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
George F. Kennan

Best, Russian, Russians

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens

Moral, Existence

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust

Women, Men, Pretty

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Cheer, However

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France

Beautiful, Path, Ask

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson

Life, Love, Experience

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham

Great, May, Whether

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler

Death, Lord, Less

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Work, God, Sleep

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great, Lose, Few

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

Speak, Shame, Ashamed

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Business, Her

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

Business, Him, Fall

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Change, Reality, Eyes

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
Ferdinand Marcos

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

War, Night, Mad

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Existence, Prove

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Sure, Mankind

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Virgil

Follow, Lead, Wherever

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando

Brother, Keeper

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Give, Chosen

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville

Strength, Speak, Show

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