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Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
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With the fruit...
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PHILIP KNIGHT Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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PHILIP BUTLER When in doubt, delete it.
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And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
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PHILIP LARKIN It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
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PHILIP ROTH But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - w...
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Holds up each summer day and shakes
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PHILIP MASSINGER Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divid...
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Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
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PHILIP WYLIE The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
PHILIP ROTH Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.
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And press with vigour on;
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Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick...
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PHILIP MASSINGER Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches.
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PHILIP SCHAFF One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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PRINCE PHILIP The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.
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PHILIP GREEN I think I pick more winners than losers.
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PHILIP ZIMBARDO Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
PRINCE PHILIP I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
PRINCE PHILIP Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
PRINCE PHILIP Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, s...
PHILIP YANCEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
PHILIP MASSINGER What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the crea...
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PHILIP ZIMBARDO The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressu...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
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Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidde...
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PHILIP JOHNSON America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
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PHILIP JOHNSON A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
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PHILIP REEVE Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.
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PHILIP HAMMOND The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
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PHILIP JOHNSON I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
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PHILIP PULLMAN It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they ha...
PHILIP ADAMS I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mi...
PHILIP MASSINGER How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It r...
PHILIP MASSINGER This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
PHILIP MASSINGER This many-headed monster.
PHILIP MASSINGER I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest...
PHILIP PULLMAN When I was a child, I thought,
Casually, that solitude
Never needed to be sought.
Som...
PHILIP LARKIN It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sex...
PHILIP SLATER