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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. – Hesiod
...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through. – Starhawk
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. – Homer
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. – Homer, The Odyssey
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. – Anne Michaels
In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. – Virgil
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. – Klemens Von Metternich
More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff. – US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. – William Blake
Obviously, if this were Donald trump or Bill Gates accused of a crime, that would be grossly inadequate, but you cannot set a bond that a person could not possibly come up with. – Kendall Coffey
The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies. – John Dryden
The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way. – Virgil
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. – Douglas Adams, The Guardian
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind? – Eknath Easwaran

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