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• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. (George Bernard Shaw) [life/child/take/courage]
• You are unlikely to have a startling adventure if you never take a more hazardous journey than a tram ride from your house to the office. It is the same with the soul. (William Maugham) [take/more/journey/tram]
• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. (Robert Frost) [take/love]
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Robert Frost) [housing/take]
• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. (Robert Burton) [feelings/willpower/take/faith]
• You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted. (Thomas Hardy) [take/pleasure/life/sorrow]
• People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. (Henry Kissinger) [people/take/interest/form]
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/anxiety/faith]
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/take/mind/take]
• I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Laurence Olivier) [take/life/eyes]
• Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. (Andrew Jackson) [take/time/time/action]
• Never take counsel of your fears. (Andrew Jackson) [take]
• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (Joseph Addison) [take/care/pleasure/life]
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler) [danger/life/take]
• Liars are always ready to take oaths. (Vittorio Alfieri) [take]
• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. (Muhammad Ali) [take/willpower/life]
• 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]
• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon) [take/find]
• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real. (James Baldwin) [state/take/life/question]
• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (James Baldwin) [take/reality/dependence/reality]
• A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore) [take]
• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? (Jean Baudrillard) [money/take]
• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man? (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/take]
• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/give]
• The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. (Hilaire Belloc) [take]
• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. (Arnold Bennett) [happiness/take/life]
• Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. (Irving Berlin) [life/take]
• When you come to a fork in the road, take it. (Yogi Berra) [take]
• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ( Napoleon I) [power/take]
• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. (Andre Breton) [take]

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