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"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith
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"Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth." »Delores Seats
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"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." »John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
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"Feel for others--in your pocket." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." »Joseph J. Lamb
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"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." »Chinese Proverb
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"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." »Raymond Chandler
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"With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too." »Jewish Proverb
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket." »Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket." »Frank McKinney Hubbard
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"Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket." »Kin Hubbard
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"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." »Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
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"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket." »Karl Kraus
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"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain." »Richard Nixon
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." »Lord Chesterfield
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"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen." »John Sloan Dickey
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"Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket." »Alan Marshall Beck
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