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"Your descendants shall gather your fruits." »Virgil
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"He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." »Mary Howitt
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"She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order." »Toni Morrison
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"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth." »George Eliot
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"gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying." »Robert Herrick
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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow." »A. C. Benson
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"gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying." »Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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"gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor." »John Haggai
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door." »Tyron Edwards
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"He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair." »I Ching
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"I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back to my home planet." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way." »Gurdjieff
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"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." »Thomas Paine
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"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision." »John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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"On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles." »Bertolt Brecht
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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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