#tempt

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#ferocity #laws #natural #species

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #mystery #prestige

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. ↗

— Titus Livius

#enterprises #great #hold #man #nothing

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. ↗

— John Locke

#interest #liable #many #men #most

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

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