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• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. (Henry James) [follow]
• The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. (Marian Anderson) [take/follow]
• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Edmund Burke) [follow/give/direction/form]
• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Samuel Butler) [follow]
• The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. (Samuel Butler) [willpower/follow]
• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? (Thomas Carlyle) [opinion/follow/money/influence]
• I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations. (Joseph Conrad) [past/follow/follow/being]
• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? (Benjamin Disraeli) [follow/people]
• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [action/follow/courage/soldier]
• Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/eyes/follow/desire]
• The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [state/follow/character/civilization & progress]
• The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [power/follow]
• It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. (Benjamin Franklin) [desire/follow]
• It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. (Margaret Fuller) [follow/books/america/literature]
• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. (Giuseppe Garibaldi) [food/death/follow]
• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? ( Horace) [content/chance/follow]
• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. (Henry James) [follow]
• Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. (William James) [action/follow/feeling/action]
• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead... (Thomas Jefferson) [follow/truth]
• If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [follow]
• It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. ( Laozi) [willpower/follow/willpower]
• It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. ( Laozi) [willpower/follow/willpower]
• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. (Bruce Lee) [follow/approach/willpower/role]
• I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [follow/flight/follow/flight]
• Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [men/follow]
• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. (Groucho Marx) [leader/men/follow/women]
• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [follow]
• The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [war/follow]
• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. (Pablo Picasso) [follow/changes]
• When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. (Luigi Pirandello) [follow/action/words]
• I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. (Bonnie Raitt) [think/willpower/follow/age]

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