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Rest is sweet after strife.
You can divide my life into two.
A man of the utmost insignificance.
Gentlemen never wear brown in London.
Life hath set No landmarks before us.
Life is good, but not life in itself.
We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.
I have been driven demented in my career.
There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
I am much more intelligent than you think.
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.
I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.
Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?
They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.
The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.