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• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Peace, War

  Letter to John Taylor, June 1798.

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• Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Earth, Dies

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• ... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Character

  Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.408, Ballantine Books

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• Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

  C. S. Lewis

  Summer, Daughter, War

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lonely, Angel, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.745, Ageless Reads

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• Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Men, Eagles

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth Is, Crime, Obvious

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Stars, Memories

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rich Or Poor, Ugly, Handsome

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

  Dean Koontz

  Darkness, Worst, Reins

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Strange Highways”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.

  Heather Brewer

  Tired, Race, Humans

  Heather Brewer (2009). “Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.15, Penguin

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• Cognition reigns but does not rule.

  Paul Valery

  Doe, Cognition

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• My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ice, Over You, Enemy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

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• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Struggle, And Love

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Thinking, Years

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.548, Pan Macmillan

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• Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Peace, Two, Desire

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• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Queens, Heaven, Clients

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• The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.

  Edward Gibbon

  Son, Eight, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.304, Modern Library

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• Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service industries, the closing down of educational opportunities, and the stripping of social protections from those marginalized by race and class has produced a generation without jobs, an independent life and even the most minimal social benefits.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Educational, Independent

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hunger, Guts

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• I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Rights, Law, Abolition Of Slavery

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.10, Cosimo Classics

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Patriotic, Sublime

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Change, Peace, Responsibility

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