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«Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.»
«It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.»
«I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.»
«So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.»
«No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.»
«There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Talent | Keywords: avail, avails, industry, substitute
«There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: avail, poignant
«For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?»
«Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Bravery | Keywords: avail, avails, bravery
«His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: avail, resolution, shed, unshaken

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