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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.