#given

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. ↗

— John Grierson

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Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#meekness #death

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. ↗

— Georges Guynemer

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I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high. ↗

— John Hall

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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

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Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#children #community #enforcement #every #given

God will forgive me. It's his job. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#forgive #forgive me #give me #god #his

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing. ↗

— Anna Held

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