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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Morning Age Evening

I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.

Sexy Yourself Man Woman

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Truth Anger Feel Striving

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morning Evening Night Done

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Work Children Today World

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday Feel Weekend Like Over

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

Focus Safety Security Uncertainty

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Day Me Great Small

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

Together Friends Political Revolution

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

You Uncle Slavery See

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Live Habit Stop Living

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness Power You Hurt

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music Time I Am Live

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Love Good Fear Prayer

Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

Knowledge People Religion Body

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Me Kiss Done More

I have not yet begun to fight!

John Paul Jones

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Father Son Me I Am

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Saint Francis de Sales

Broken World Never Will

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Education Own Want Others

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

World Think Places Some

Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over - and may have only begun.

Suicide Debate May Decisions

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

History May Nation American

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

Work Never Left Anything

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Work Fear Me View

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Wise Done Half Dare

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