"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

Chance, Potential, Danger, Delay, Time

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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"

Philip Gibbs, British Journalist

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"I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth."

Barry Bostwick, American Actor

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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

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"I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across."

Dana Fox, American Writer

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"What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too."

Thomas Dooley, German Athlete

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"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

Dream

"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."

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"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."

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"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."

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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

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"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

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"Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels:Its wings are almost free - its home, its harbour found,Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound,'Oh I dreadful is the check - intense the agony - When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain."

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"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

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"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."

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