#laid

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years. ↗

— James Larkin

#desolation #enemy #fields #fight #hills

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#believe #born #daughter #eyes #felt

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#almost #begotten #case #everywhere #greater

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. ↗

— Edwin Markham

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