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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay
Love
Mercy
Cowards
Delight
Cruel
Brave
Save
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
You
Happy
Experience
Remember
Will
Every
Latent
Circumstances
Some
Seem
Troubles
Develops
Adverse
Force
Call
Within
However
May
Experiences
Your
Vigorous
Grow
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats
Fears
Immortality
Follow
Voices
Crowned
Lead
He
Where
Who
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Thoughts
Own
Strike
Fine
Poetry
Excess
Highest
Remembrance
Almost
Reader
Surprise
His
Singularity
Wording
Should
Appear
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke
Property
Injustice
Where
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke
Passion
Men
Liable
Temptation
Points
Most
Error
Interest
Many
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke
Men
More
Learned
Frequently
Questions
Than
Child
Unexpected
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
Truth
Man
Possession
One Thing
He
Put
Him
Another
Error
Show
Thing
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield
Sky
Lonely
Down
Must
Steer
Tall
Go
Ship
Again
Ask
Sea
Star
Her
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
Man
Conservative
Past
Nothing
More
Know
Makes
Which
Present
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
Thoughts
Words
Wild
Ought
Little
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton
Books
Shallow
Himself
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Architecture
First
Goodness
Duty
Pleasing
Kinds
Practical
Well
Buildings
Doing
Graceful
Then
Require
Two
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
John Stuart Mill
God
Will
Men
Whatever
Despotism
Individuality
Crushes
Name
May
Whether
Enforcing
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill
Sides
Correct
Both
Tend
Both Sides
Wrong
Intellectual
Debates
Affirm
Deny
O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
John Wesley
Me
Heart
Own
Follow
Give
Give Me
My Own
Never
Over
Nor
Imaginations
Desires
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
John Wesley
Death
Alone
Me
Trust
Law
Christ
Saved
Assurance
Mine
Given
Had
He
Taken
Sin
Felt
Sins
Salvation
Did
Even
Away
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
John Wesley
Word
Christ
Promises
Build
Mercies
Know
Sure
Rock
His
Amen
Which
Ages
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
John Wesley
Life
Art
Men
Country
Reputation
Think
Ease
Thou
Thou Art
Given
Foolish
True
Thy
Goods
Most
Gospel
Up
Friends
What If
Storm
Then
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
John Wycliffe
Life
Enemy
Wind
Stronger
Temptations
Higher
Hill
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.
John le Carre
You
Frustration
Every
Liberal
Right-Wing
Penetrate
Voice
Steering
Through
Mass
Instincts
Mass Media
Opinion
Wonder
Begin
Get
American
Same
Decent
Whether
Media
Suffer
Suffers
Actually
Humanitarian
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
Judi Dench
Welcome
People
Concerned
Am
Improve
Anything
Elderly
Far
Lives
Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
Julie Andrews
Life
Time
Right Place
Right Time
Would
Marvelous
Could
Taken
Often
Place
Turns
Fortunate
Who
Right
Twists
Imagined
I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
KSI
Life
Time
Me
You
People
Chill
Real Life
Own
Nice
Meet
Out
Eccentric
Faces
Guy
My Own
Like
Real
Surprises
Lot
Friends
Get
Just
Chill Out
Really
Certainly
Nice Guy
Disrespectful
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
Karen Armstrong
Faith
People
Better
Islam
Fighting
Tolerance
Christianity
Took
Intolerant
Though
East
Muslims
Record
Perceived
Had
Crusades
Since
Were
Western
Western Europe
Than
Often
Against
Root
Holy
Prejudice
Europe
Wars
Even
Ever
Near
Violent
Christians
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
Kate Middleton
Work
Time
Health
Challenges
Mental Health
Example
Seen
Beginning
Addiction
Mental
Area
Unresolved
Adulthood
Almost
Since
Like
For Example
Always
Time And Time
Childhood
Again
Poor
Roots
Present
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