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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

Men, Giving, Together

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Thomas Fuller

Themselves, Church, Bring

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson

Equality, Happy, State

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson

Show, Dog, Portrait

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett

Someone, Worth, Unless

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

History, Experience, Science

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Children

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

Pride, Actually, Ourselves

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos

Life, Power, Wish

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Character, Leader

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Happen, Goal

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Minds, Trouble, Wishes

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Spend, Hollywood

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
Adele

Money, Care, Focus

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Life, Love, Death

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Happiness, True

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Michel de Montaigne

Person, Honor, Lose

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
John Avlon

Politics, Reason, Both

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry A. Kissinger

War, Why, President

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
Bo Bennett

Kindness, True, Stupidity

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel

Success, Work, Good

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey

Men, Respect, Sun

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
Wilson Mizner

Guy, Mile, Square

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Marshall McLuhan

Experience, Far, Everybody

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot

God, Done, Seem

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde

Women, Black, Attention

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee

Art, Makes, Reproduce

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

Today, Lost, Down

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams

Women, Men, Vote

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman

Peace, President

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