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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.