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“It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.”

Knows Ends Matter Past Fairs Portions Things That Matter

Author:Esther Meynell

“My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.”

Past Night Vision Air Fairs Filled My Thoughts Castles Castles In The Air

Book:Selections from Thomas Love Peacock

Source: Selections from Thomas Love Peacock

“We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.”

Past Courses Individual Interest Acceptance Fairs Profit Driving Obligation Initiative Incentives Public Interest

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Has Beens Past Joy Heaven Hours Fate Mines Rain Fairs Shining Spite Possessed Foul Rain Or Shine

Book:The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.”

Men Past Spirit Can Do Path Thousand Fairs Weight Add Former Persistence Progressive Drag Immense Towers No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.”

People Looks America Past Wealth Media Stupid Color Taste Deserve Concerned Fairs Slave Hateful

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.”

People World Want Believe Done Past Hate I Believe Perfect Violence Fairs Opposites I Hate Madness Cruelty Scare Scream Confrontation Amiable A Perfect World Unkindness Affable Moodiness

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.”

Men Past Young Desire Girl Forever Regret Fairs Young Man Old Man Ecstasy Now And Then Desirable Stirring Slender Ignoble

Author:Anatole France

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”

Ifs World War Country America Past Causes Principles Virtue Honest Inspire Bears Fame Equal Ambition Fairs Adversity Prosperity Opening Firm Temper Remembrance Serene

Author:Thomas Paine

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