The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.


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BERNARD BECKETT
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
BERNARD ARNAULT
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can ...
BERNARD MELTZER
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you ...
SAINT BERNARD
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
BERNARD MELTZER
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a mor...
BERNARD PIVOT
They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL
In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of sham...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I really missed them, ... [They're] all I have now. [My] house is gone, trucks gone -- brand new tru...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
It's a damn good idea. And it's a long overdue idea.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
It sounds like you would be good for housing, but we?re a community treatment team. We?re working wi...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the peo...
BERNARD WEBER
I believe that after more than 2,000 years it's time to redefine the world wonders. Thanks to intern...
BERNARD WEBER
I have to admit, before I started the project, I had about three weeks of sleepless nights. The idea...
BERNARD WEBER
They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were sym...
BERNARD WEBER
Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.
BERNARD THIBAULT
The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented...
BERNARD THIBAULT
Tuesday can be a turning point.
BERNARD THIBAULT
That would be a decision with serious consequences.
BERNARD THIBAULT
When all unions join together to bring a consistent message, there is a response and support from th...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT
Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real eme...
BERNARD THIBAULT