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«Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him»
«One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me»
«NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.»
«My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.»
Author: Robert E. Lee | Keywords: chief, concern, earnest, humble
«Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.»
«Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.»
«Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.»
«Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Life, Wishes | Keywords: chief
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
«One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.»

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