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"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty." »Epictetus
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"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." »Samuel Johnson
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"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell
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"Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease." »Nicholas Boileau
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"Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease." »Nicolas Boileau
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"There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency." »Jeremy Collier
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"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure." »Lawana Blackwell
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite." »William Blake
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"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please." »Edmund Spenser
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow." »William Lyon Phelps
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"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without." »Joseph Addison
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." »Helen Keller
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"Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds." »Jeremy Taylor
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"Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." »Helen Keller
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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
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"Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." »J. Willard Marriott
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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." »Douglas Malloch
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"I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one." »Euripides
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"I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one." »Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.
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"The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar
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"If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds." »Persian
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"No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!" »Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!
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