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If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
Author: Alexander, the Great
Source: to Diogenes when asked to stand out of his sunshine, in Plutarch's "Life of Alexander"
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But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 42)
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For many are called, but few are chosen.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14)
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Giaour (l. 969)
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Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: Troilus and Criseyde (bk. II, l, 470)
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What voice did on my spirit fall,
Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?
'Tis better to have fought and lost
That never to have fought at all!
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
Source: Peschiera
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: Lacon (p. 362)
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Heraclius (IV, 4)
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLII)
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essay--Intellect
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Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Adagia (ch. III, cent. VI, 94), quoted from the Greek
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Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Letter to Pirkheimer
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Submit or resign.
[Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Letter to Pirkheimer
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Author: Robert Lowth
Source: The Choice of Hercules (1)
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Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 47)
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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever place
Farthest from pain?
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 889)
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
Author: George A. Moore
Source: The Bending of the Bough (act IV)
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Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Homer's Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 79)
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at I, ii)
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Edmund at V, i)
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I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
Author: Owen Wister
Source: None
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Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.
Author: April Smith
Source: None
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When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.
Author: Doc Childre
Source: None
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
Source: None
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Author: Tryon Edwards
Source: None
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
Author: Andre Maurois
Source: None
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
Author: William James
Source: None
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Author: R. H. Blyth
Source: None
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Source: None
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How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.
Author: Doc Childre
Source: None
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.
Author: Joan Baez
Source: None
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.
Author: Victor Frank
Source: None
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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Source: None
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The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.
Author: Lance Armstrong
Source: None
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