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Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Paine

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. – James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887

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The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. – Donald Barthelme

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