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«It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.»
«Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading»
«He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
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«Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
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«If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
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be on, held, Other side, side, The other side
«If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable»
«By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
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«Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Love
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«During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.»
«Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.»
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