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“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”
MoHotta18 Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)
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“We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.”
SardonicBreeze Henry Wotton, Sr. quotes (English Author and Diplomat 1568-1639)

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“The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.”
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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”
John Updike quotes (American writer, b.1932)
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars”
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“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Og Mandino quotes (American Essayist and Psychologist, 1923-1996)
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“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
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“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi quotes
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“When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes (Austro-German lyric poet, author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, 1875-1926)
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“What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.”
adrian_the_great Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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