#sooner

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#hardly #into #judicial #later #political

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. ↗

— Theodore White

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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#being #dreadful #easier #go #happens

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#better #better off #dangerous #energy #energy sources

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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