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• Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

  Winston Churchill

  Parent, Done, Saving

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• Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

  Jeremy Brett

  Bravery, Lips, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

  Alexander Pope

  Romance, Doe, World

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

  Rod Dreher

  Sex, Good Life, Party

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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• Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Blue, Tradition, Thunderbolts

  Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

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• It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.

  Francois de la Noue

  Teacher, Writing, Men

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• Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

  Mark Twain

  World, Authority, Enormous

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.56, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Nice, Impact, World Suffering

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• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Adversity, Rights, Self

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• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

  Willa Cather

  Giving, Noble, Achieve

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

  John Adams

  Children, War, Agriculture

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• It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

  Pierre Curie

  Love, Dream, Soulmate

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• Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.

  Joan Blades

  Long, Voting, Paper

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Believe, Sea

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• My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Wife, Soy Milk

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• Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

  Max Stirner

  Leadership, Purpose, Might

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Mean, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

  Edward Abbey

  America, People, Democracy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Dog, Heart, Doors

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• But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  News, Paradise, Green

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road"

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• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Art, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

  Jack Kerouac

  Angel, Talking, Rosary

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

  Susan Glaspell

  Brave, Desert, Gone

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